The Stimulus Is Working, The Stimulus Is Working, The Stimulus Is Working

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6:17 PM, Jul 17, 2009 • By JOHN MCCORMACK

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Earlier this week, Gov. Charlie Crist said that the stimulus is working. Today, the St. Petersburg Times reports:

Florida's unemployment rate jumped to 10.6 percent in June, the highest in more than 34 years, with the Tampa Bay area among the leaders in job losses over the year.

The jobless figure, up from 10.2 percent a month earlier, represents 970,000 out-of-work Floridians out of a statewide workforce of 9.19 million. The last time Florida unemployment was higher was October 1975, when it hit 11 percent.

Surely the fact that eight million of Florida nine million workers have jobs proves the stimulus is working. And if an eminent (or is that imminent?) economist like Larry Summers says the Google told him the stimulus is working, who am I to question him?

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