*"Our [stimulus] plan will save or create 3-4 million new jobs, 90% of these jobs will be created in the private sector, the remaining public sector jobs." <ref>http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/01/obama_4_million_jobs.html</ref> (President Barack Obama on the economic stimulus package.) When the [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act]] was passed in february of 2009 the nation's Unemployment Rate was 8.1%, by December 2009 it was 10.2%. <ref>http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/data.exe/feddal/ru</ref> | *"Our [stimulus] plan will save or create 3-4 million new jobs, 90% of these jobs will be created in the private sector, the remaining public sector jobs." <ref>http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2009/01/obama_4_million_jobs.html</ref> (President Barack Obama on the economic stimulus package.) When the [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act]] was passed in february of 2009 the nation's Unemployment Rate was 8.1%, by December 2009 it was 10.2%. <ref>http://www.economagic.com/em-cgi/data.exe/feddal/ru</ref> |