The Washington Post reports that yesterday the White House announced that the stimulus package passed last year

has created or saved between 1.7 million and 2 million jobs, but its impact on the economy ebbed slightly in the final quarter of 2009 compared with prior months. . . . Releasing the administration’s second quarterly report to Congress on the stimulus’s impact, Christina Romer, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, said a third of the tax cuts and spending in the package is out the door.

This claim is disturbing in light of this chart:

And that doesn’t take under consideration the serious shrinkage of the labor force over the last few months.