New CBO Report: Up to 2.4 Million People Owe Their Jobs to the Recovery Act

From the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities:

http://www.offthechartsblog.org/new-cbo-report-up-to-2-4-million-people-owe-their-jobs-to-the-recovery-act/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OffTheChartsBlog+%28Off+the+Charts+Blog+|+Center+on+Budget+and+Policy+Priorities%29

A new Congressional Budget Office analysis finds that the 2009 Recovery Act (ARRA) is continuing to save jobs and protect the economy from what would have been a much deeper recession. As we describe in an updated analysis, in the third quarter of 2011 the Recovery Act:

--increased the number of people employed by between 0.4 million and 2.4 million,
--increased real GDP by between 0.3 percent and 1.9 percent (see chart below),