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John Mica: If we had the full 60--we will just round it off, we will say $60 billion out and you get 28 to 34,000--and we will…

On the recordSeptember 30, 2009
If we had the full 60--we will just round it off, we will say $60 billion out and you get 28 to 34,000--and we will round that out, to 30,000 jobs per billion dollars in infrastructure investment, we would have 1.8 million people working.
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John Mica
Republican · Florida

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Mica estimates potential job creation from full stimulus funding.

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