Stimulus Report: Six Months Out
Some recovery. Since the stimulus bill was signed into law, the country has shed 2.8 million net jobs and increased unemployment from 7.6% to 9.4%, with 15 states seeing average unemployment of 10% or more.
No wonder the latest Gallup poll shows that 57% of Americans believe the stimulus has failed to work, or even made things worse. But click over to the White House website or "recovery.gov" and it's all sunshine and rainbows.