States and local governments pay huge amounts to corps. for the promise to create jobs. No More Candy Store used to recount the abuses. I have not checked it recently. Max was the one who first pointed out their. work.
On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 3:34 AM, Gar Lipow <[email protected]> wrote: > I find the following statistic various places "Adding 1 million jobs > cuts deficit by 54 billion". For example: > http://www.ourfiscalsecurity.org/deficit-101. As a source in turn it > links to > http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2009/pdf/hist.pdf > which is 342 pages, and does not contain that statistic as far as > intensive searching can determine. Nor does further searching turn it > up. > > I know x jobs = x deficit reduction is pretty crude. After all what > kind of job matters among other things. Still someone must have come > up with some rough estimate somewhere - either the 1 million jobs > equal 54 billion in deficit reduction or some other number. Help on > this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > -- > Facebook: Gar Lipow Twitter: GarLipow > Grist Blog: http://www.grist.org/member/1598 > Static page: http://www.nohairshirts.com > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 530 898 5321 fax 530 898 5901 http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
