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How many jobs is the Buy American provision worth?

Ben Nelson points to a study by Gary Hufbauer and Jeff Schott that the Buy American provision of the stimulus bill would only “create” 1,000 jobs in the steel industry because it is so capital-intensive.

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This entry was posted in Non-Tariff Barriers, Protectionism on 4 February 2009 by jdingel.

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