Showing posts with label job growth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label job growth. Show all posts

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Zandi Thinks the Obama Plan Would Work

Mark Zandi has crunched the numbers for Obama's job's plan and concludes it would work - that it would add 2% to GDP and create 1.9 million jobs and reduce unemployment by 1%. That is the good news. Bad news - he doesn't see a lot of the program getting through congress. Here is the details of his analysis. The best part is the chart below.






Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Job Growth and the Recovery

David Leonardt in the New York Times has a great chart breaking down the job growth in 2010 and what that means for the shape and duration of the recovery. The general picture is not new, but the way it is described is quite useful and insightful.