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  • AP Enterprise: Schwarzenegger overstates 'stimulus' job claims

    04/11/2008 6:30:43 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 7 replies · 72+ views
    AP on Bakersfield Californian ^ | 4/11/08 | Aaron C. Davis - ap
    Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has jetted up and down California in recent weeks trumpeting his own stimulus plan for the state's ailing economy. He has promised to create at least 12,500 new jobs by releasing nearly $750 million from public works bonds voters approved in 2006 for transportation, housing and flood-control projects. "People need jobs," Schwarzenegger said at a news conference last month announcing one of the largest chunks of new spending, nearly $400 million for public transit projects. "We are going to create those jobs and pump this money as quickly as possible back into the economy." An Associated Press...
  • Economists find job market data hard to pin down (good info, irritating situation)

    01/30/2004 6:36:34 PM PST · by litany_of_lies · 20 replies · 314+ views
    USA Today (actual print edition posted online) ^ | Jan. 30, 2004 | Barbara Hagenbaugh
    <p>WASHINGTON -- The job market is considered the biggest indicator of the health of any economy and one of the most important determinants of economic policymaking.</p> <p>What do you do when it's unclear how the job market is doing?</p> <p>That's a question U.S. economists are asking as data and anecdotal information on the labor market increasingly tell different stories.</p>