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The Economy

By Dean Baker

Laboring for job loss. Bush is the first president since Herbert Hoover to actually lose jobs during his term. (Typically, the economy creates 8 million jobs in four years.) The economy has 913,000 fewer jobs today than when Bush took office in 2001. Tax cuts for the rich were not an effective stimulus. Building up the housing bubble. The limited economic… return to article

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