24 Nov 2009
Counting Jobs Created or Saved by the "Stimulus" Bill, Part 2:
Program design prevents error correction
by Richard Belzer
in Information Quality
The federal government's reported figures for jobs "created or saved" by the "stimulus" bill (formally the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or "ARRA") are now known to be wrong. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, which oversees these figures, apparently has decided not to correct them.
