Job Loss and Infrastructure Job Creation Spending During the Recession.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Business cycles.

Expenditures, Public.

Unemployment.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (15 pages, digital, PDF file)

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2009.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Examines trends in employment and job loss since beginning of latest recession. Focuses on job creation estimates associated with increased spending on infrastructure, emphasizing limitations and caveats associated with the input-output methodology that often is utilized to develop such estimates. Reviews known facts about the number of jobs supported by infrastructure spending in P.L. 111-5, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Notes:

Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.

CRS Report.

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Microfiche version: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service. Job Loss and Infrastructure Job Creation Spending During the Recession

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