“It’s a bad deal” concludes Robert Barro, the author of research on the cost of the stimulus, in the Wall Street Journal. Well, not for everyone. My research shows that during the last two years, the number of public employees has increased from 22.3 million in January 2008 to 22.4 million in January 2010, after peaking at 22.6 million in July 2009. The number of private jobs decreased from 115.5 million in January 2008 to 107 million in January 2010.

That a lose of 8.7 million jobs in the private sector while the public sector gained almost 100,000 jobs.

The whole thing here.