The Bush tax cuts, other tax extenders and small business packages with job stimulus have taken center stage.
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In other words, the plan was to spend more than two and a half times the average yearly private sector wage to create each temporary stimulus job.
For older people, work may then offer some of the charms that have lured so many women into the job market: stimulus, companionship and the freedom from worry that a bit of extra money can bring.
Obama's proposals for spending on infrastructure and alternative energy could also be moved forward to provide stimulus and job creation for a faltering economy, says Levy.
Patrick Sandusky, a spokesman for the Chicago 2016 committee, said the games still had "quite high public support" and that they would, in fact, act as a mini-economic stimulus for job creation.
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When John Boehner and Eric Cantor presented last February to you some substantive job creation, our stimulus alternative, the attack machine began to marginalize Eric -- and we can all look at the articles -- as "Mr. No, " and there was this pretty dark story, ultimately, that wasn't productive and wasn't within this sort of framework that you're articulating today.
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Has either party created the kind of stimulus to improve their job prospects or wage growth?
As has been increasingly obvious, the Federal Reserve is behind much of this economic bounce, pushing with monetary stimulus to jump start job creation and economic growth.
But those job losses took place before any stimulus, whether it was the ones that you guys have proposed or the ones that we proposed, could have ever taken into effect.
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The president instituted his job program in 2009: His big stimulus plan, backed by the Federal Reserve's active monetary creation.
Compare this supply-side approach to the Keynesian solution recommended by Reich that puts artificial job creation and demand-side government stimulus first.
"So it's pretty urgent that the economic stimulus bill not only address the job situation, but address health insurance coverage too, " she says.
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Job and wealth losses have compressed tax revenues, and stimulus spending has padded the numbers on the expenditure side.
Temporary federal stimulus is waning and state and local-government job cuts have added roughly 0.4 percentage points to the unemployment rate.
Williams shrugs when asked how the politicians in Washington could help her with an economic stimulus package and says she is beginning to compromise in her job search, looking for openings in retail sales or other positions that would pay her less than at Caterpillar but allow her to keep up with the mortgage and feed her children.
The stimulus can do that by focusing exclusively on strengthening businesses, boosting job creation and lifting consumer confidence.
Tax breaks are useful to provide a short term stimulus to help us through an economic downturn and stimuluses do the same job although their focus is different.
It is possible to calculate from the two unemployment curves approximately how many job-years of temporary employment Romer and Bernstein were forecasting would be created by their stimulus program.
His stimulus package, though huge, was subcontracted to Congress, which did a mediocre job: too much of the money will arrive too late to be of help in the current crisis.
Beyond the stimulus, does the White House believe more should be done in terms of government intervention for job creation?
The stimulus plan has protected public-sector employees from layoffs, but it has not sparked private-sector job creation.
It took no new steps to provide new stimulus to the economy yesterday, and said in a statement that it was ready to act only if job growth deteriorated.
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