{"id":6955,"date":"2009-10-29T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T16:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/merkley-gdp-growth-a-good-sign-for-economy-but-we-have-to-focus-on-job-creation\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T11:11:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T15:11:33","slug":"merkley-gdp-growth-a-good-sign-for-economy-but-we-have-to-focus-on-job-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-gdp-growth-a-good-sign-for-economy-but-we-have-to-focus-on-job-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Merkley: El crecimiento del PIB es una buena se\u00f1al para la econom\u00eda, pero debemos centrarnos en la creaci\u00f3n de empleo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><strong><br \/>Washington DC<\/strong> \u2013 Hoy el Departamento de Comercio<br \/>\nanunci\u00f3 que la econom\u00eda creci\u00f3 por primera vez en un a\u00f1o. Bruto<br \/>\nEl Producto Interno (PIB) creci\u00f3 a una tasa anual de 3.5 por ciento en los \u00faltimos tres<br \/>\nmeses, despu\u00e9s de caer un 0,7 por ciento en el segundo trimestre y un 6,5 por ciento en el<br \/>\nprimer trimestre de 2009. Seg\u00fan el Consejo de Asesores Econ\u00f3micos, el<br \/>\nLa Ley Estadounidense de Recuperaci\u00f3n y Reinversi\u00f3n aport\u00f3 entre tres y cuatro<br \/>\npuntos porcentuales al crecimiento del PIB.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">El senador de Oreg\u00f3n, Jeff Merkley, public\u00f3 lo siguiente<br \/>\ndeclaraci\u00f3n:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">\u201cMe complace que despu\u00e9s de un a\u00f1o de declive econ\u00f3mico, la<br \/>\nLa econom\u00eda por fin est\u00e1 creciendo de nuevo. Sin embargo, el crecimiento del PIB no es nuestra medida.<br \/>\ndel \u00e9xito, lo es la creaci\u00f3n de buenos empleos con buenos salarios. Por millones de<br \/>\nEstadounidenses, esta recesi\u00f3n no terminar\u00e1 hasta que nuevas empresas puedan abrir sus puertas.<br \/>\nLas puertas y las empresas existentes pueden expandirse y crear nuevos puestos de trabajo. Con el fin de<br \/>\nPara revertir esta recesi\u00f3n en Main Street, necesitamos que la gente vuelva a trabajar<br \/>\ny restaurar la seguridad econ\u00f3mica para nuestras familias\u201d.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. &ndash; Today the Commerce Department announced that the economy grew for the first time in a year.&nbsp; Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at an annual rate of 3.5 percent in the last three months, after falling 0.7 percent in the second quarter and 6.5 percent in the first quarter of 2009.&nbsp; According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-6955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-jobs-and-the-economy"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Merkley: GDP Growth a Good Sign for Economy But We Have to Focus on Job Creation - Merkley<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merkley.senate.gov\/es\/merkley-gdp-growth-a-good-sign-for-economy-but-we-have-to-focus-on-job-creation\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"es_MX\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Merkley: GDP Growth a Good Sign for Economy But We Have to Focus on Job Creation - Merkley\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Washington, D.C. &ndash; 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