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"0.17%: Extending Unemployment Benefits Would Increase Spending by 0.17 Percent
Extending Unemployment Benefits Would Increase Spending by 0.17 Percent
That's just in case you are like the vast majority of New York Times readers and have no clue how much $6 billion is. New York Times reporters do not have the ten seconds it takes to go to CEPR's Responsible Budget Reporting calculator http://www.cepr.net/index.php/responsible-budget-reporting make their stories informative to readers.
http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/extending-unemployment-benefits-would-increase-spending-by-017-percent