Tuesday, July 05, 2011

Right-Wing Media Return To Using "Bogus" Math To Attack Stimulus

The right-wing media are promoting a claim made by a Weekly Standard writer that the stimulus has "cost $278,000 per job." However, simply dividing the amount of money spent by the number of jobs created is, according to an Associated Press fact check, "highly misleading," and economist and Nobel laureate Paul Krugman has called this math "bogus." Read More

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