Here's how Michael Mandel starts his column:
Here's a quiz for you: The two biggest job creators in the economy over the past year were health care and education, adding 370,000 and 160,000 jobs, respectively. Meanwhile, construction and manufacturing lost a total of 1.5 million jobs.
So which one of these two statements is true?
a) The Obama stimulus bill gives the most money to the worst-hit parts of the economymanufacturing and construction.
b) The Obama stimulus bill gives the most money to the growing parts of the economyhealth care and education.
Answer after the jump:
If you guessed (b), give yourself a pat on the back. Despite all the talk of big infrastructure projects, the majority of increased spending in the bill goes to health and education. And that's a good thing.
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