Stimulus Watch: In Jobs, What's Stability Worth?
Deseret News (Salt Lake City) › June 08, 2009
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WASHINGTON -- Washington is paying hundreds of millions of dollars to build new, cleaner-burning buses, but don't scour the want ads looking for a burst of job openings soon at major manufacturers or suppliers.
The bus money, like many other programs in the $787 billion stimulus plan, is having the less glamorous and harder-to-quantify effect of keeping workers employed, providing a slight buffer from the recession to some in the auto industry.See the full content of this document
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Stimulus Watch: In Jobs, What's Stability Worth?
At the White House, where saving jobs always was as much a priority as creating jobs, the bus industry is a success story. But it also shows how hard it is to account for that success, especially in an industry that keeps shedding ...
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