Stimulus Effort Creates or Saves 63,000 Jobs in Wisconsin

by Kids Forward | August 4, 2010

Home 9 Tax and Budget 9 Stimulus Effort Creates or Saves 63,000 Jobs in Wisconsin ( Page 7 )

A new report estimates that the Recovery Act has created or saved 63,000 jobs in Wisconsin so far, and between 2.5 and 3.6 million jobs nationally. Check out the Wisconsin Budget Project Blog for the full scoop, including an estimate of what the Wisconsin unemployment rate would have been without the stimulus.

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