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Statement by Chad Stone, Chief Economist, on the July Employment Report
Publication Date: August 2008
Publisher(s): Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (Washington, D.C.)
Author(s): Chad Stone
Special Collection: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Topic: Economics (Economic policy, planning, and development)
Keywords: Household income; Financial future; Economic projections; Recession
Type: News release
Abstract:
Consumer spending supported by the stimulus payments that Congress enacted earlier this year has kept the economy from being even weaker than it is. But those effects won’t last, and nothing in the latest data suggests the economy is on the verge of a spontaneous rebound.