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Goolsbee On the Stimulus

Austan Goolsbee has another video, this one explaining the stimulus and unemployment:

Goolsbee's chart shows the rate of job loss, which slowed and then reversed itself over Obama's presidency. So why do people still think the economy stinks? Because all Obama has done was alter the trajectory of the change. Losing jobs at a slower rate, or even gaining them at a modest pace, still doesn't stop unemployment from rising: