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Wingnut Outrage of the Week: The EPA's "$21B Expansion"

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Killgore Trout9/28/2011 4:09:16 pm PDT

Obama Jobs Plan May Prevent 2012 Recession: Economists

President Barack Obama’s $447 billion jobs plan would help avoid a return to recession by maintaining growth and pushing down the unemployment rate next year, according to economists surveyed by Bloomberg News.

The legislation, submitted to Congress this month, would increase gross domestic product by 0.6 percent next year and add or keep 275,000 workers on payrolls, the median estimates in the survey of 34 economists showed. The program would also lower the jobless rate by 0.2 percentage point in 2012, economists said.