White House calls $160,000 Per Stimulus Job story 'abuse'

Courtesy Digg - Business & Finance  Sun, 11/01/2009 - 01:00

160 billion divided by 1 million. Does that mean the stimulus costs taxpayers $160,000 per job? Jared Bernstein, chief economist and senior economic adviser to the vice president, called that "calculator abuse." He said the cost per job was actually $92,000...


 

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