Stimulus for roads hasn’t helped joblessness

Courtesy MSNBC.com: Business  Mon, 01/11/2010 - 08:01

Ten months into President Barack Obama's first economic stimulus plan, a surge in spending on roads and bridges has had no effect on local unemployment and only barely helped the beleaguered construction industry, an Associated Press analysis found.<br /><br />Local unemployment rates rose and fell regardless of how much stimulus money Washington poured out for transportation, an analysis found.


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