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Why is the economy adding jobs so slowly? Blame the stimulus.
Steve Benen of Washinton Monthly has a couple of charts that illustrate what is going on with the nation's jobs. The first one shows private sector job creation in the latter half of 2010 when stimulus money was still being spent.
This chart is private job creation in the first half of 2011, when stimulus spending was largely over.
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