The announcement of investing $500B with the proposed benefit of creating $100K jobs - to my amazement did not produce any commentary that I came across raising questions about the ROI of spending $5M per job created. I mean it’s all right there in the announcement!

For instance, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009, which allocated approximately $787 billion, was estimated to have created or saved between 2.4 and 3.6 million jobs by early 2011. This translates to a cost of roughly $218,000 to $328,000 per job

In contrast, a study summarized by economist Valerie Ramey in 2011 found that each $35,000 of government spending produced one extra job.

Federal Highway Administration estimated that every $1 billion in federal highway and transit investment supports approximately 13,000 jobs for one year, equating to about $77,000 per job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Recovery_and_Reinvest... https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w17787/w177... https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/policy/otps/pubs/impacts/