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killed 1 million private sector jobs.  

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As a response to a recession that began in December of 2007, President Barack Obama signed into law The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, hereafter ARRA, (Public Law 111-5) in February of 2009.1 It authorized $288 billion for Federal tax cuts and $499 billion in Federal government spending. This paper seeks to understand the causal effect on employment of the government spending component of the ARRA.2 We estimate how many jobs were created/saved by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.3
Our benchmark results suggest that the ARRA created/saved approximately 450 thousand state and local government jobs and destroyed/forestalled roughly one million private sector jobs. State and local government jobs were saved because ARRA funds were largely used to offset state revenue shortfalls and Medicaid increases rather than boost private sector employment. The majority of destroyed/forestalled jobs were in growth industries including health, education, professional and business services. This suggests the possibility that, in absence of the ARRA, many government workers (on average relatively well-educated) would have found private-sector emloyment had their jobs not been saved. Searching across alternative model specifications, the best-case scenario for an effectual ARRA has the Act creating/saving a net 659 thousand jobs, mainly in government.

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See, this is what I, and many of you guys, keep trying to tell the liberals. The more government gets involved, the worse things get. This proves it.
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Well, this study shows that the ARRA actually grew the government, which some liberals would applaud.
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You mean a government program hurt the private sector?  No.

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jacobp said:

Well, this study shows that the ARRA actually grew the government, which some liberals would applaud.

You're right, even though if those figures are correct, America saw a net loss of approximately 550 thousand jobs as a result of the ARRA.
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