500,000 JOBS SAVED SO FAR

And let's hope there will be millions more in the future.

From Al Hunt's 8/16/09 column at Bloomberg News:

With only 15 percent of the cash spent, the stimulus has already saved more than 500,000 jobs, according to separate estimates by Moody’s Economy.com and HIS Global Insight. “There are clear signs the stimulus is working,” says Kenneth Goldstein, an economist at the non-partisan Conference Board in New York.