The Dig and its assorted workers certainly consumed materials, equipment, and domestic goods.

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With unemployment at near-historic lows in many areas of the country, one of the few remaining solutions is to dig for workers elsewhere, administration officials believe -- namely, in areas that have not yet felt the economic boom.

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In a turn of phrase which I think many Keynesians today might feel would have been better left unsaid, Keynes argued that this would work even if workers were hired by the government simply to dig holes in the ground and fill them up again.

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When you dig into the data, the mix of devices info workers use for work is different than what IT provides.

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This time, crews were able to dig up parts of the trade center site that were previously inaccessible to workers, the city said.

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Paying one group of workers to dig a hole and another to fill them back up would be good for the economy?

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