A growing number of economists say the stimulus has indeed kept more Americans away from the unemployment lines.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

Allen Sinai,Chief Global Economist at Boston-based Decision Economics,Inc., says the number of jobs created by the stimulus plan might be "a bit disappointing."

VOA: standard.2009.03.10

"I think it made sense to do the stimulus, but it should have been smaller and better focused than the administration certainly did."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"So,the effectiveness of the stimulus itself will rely on the way the system will defreeze.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

"The fact that unemployment has remained so high does suggest that the stimulus has not had as large an impact as the administration claims."

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

"Part of the stimulus packages have been additional resources for labor markets and social policies."

VOA: standard.2009.09.16

"It has to do to a large extent with the stimulus measures taken by governments, and by the very vigorous response of central banks on the crisis.

VOA: standard.2010.04.21

"We saw,with the stimulus the effort to rush and spend, what can happen if you jam major legislation before people have an opportunity to understand what is in it,".

VOA: standard.2009.07.21

"We have lost two-million jobs since the stimulus bill was passed,".

VOA: standard.2009.08.02

And because of the stimulus package consumption activities are reasonably active."

VOA: standard.2009.10.16

Without the stimulus, Viard admits unemployment would be higher than the current 9.7 percent, but he says the massive cash infusion into infrastructure projects has created fewer than a million jobs.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

While analysts say no one knows for sure how many jobs the stimulus has created, President Obama says he's under no illusions that one program alone can solve the nation's economic problems.

VOA: standard.2010.06.18

To help create jobs, he urged the Senate to join the House of Representatives in passing a second economic stimulus bill.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

But members of both parties have suggested they might support new stimulus measures to end the recession.

VOA: special.2009.07.10