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The stimulus added how many jobs?

The Congressional Budget Office says the 2009 economic stimulus added lots of jobs. But we're not sure about how many.

This final note today, in which the economic stimulus package of 2009 returns.

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office said today the tail end of the $800 billion Congress authorized two-and-a-half years ago added three-tenths of a percent to the third quarter GDP number that came out this morning.

As these things tend to go, though, it was vague in a couple of key areas.

How many jobs the stimulus package added: anywhere from 500,000 to 3.3 million. Which is a margin of error of, yeah, I dunno.

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