The plan to support the U.S. economy contributed 4.5% in real gross domestic product in the second quarter of 2010 and allowed to deliver up to 3.3 million people in employment, said Tuesday Budget Office Congress (OBC).
The CBO estimates, a bipartisan agency, believes the support plan, whose effects are challenged by the Republican Party, has prevented the economy contracted between April and June
Economists polled by Reuters expect the revised figures, which will be released Friday, show that GDP grew at an anemic pace of 1.4% in the second quarter, less than the 1.7% increase announced in the first estimate.
The CBO also estimates that support plan has put between 1.4 and 3.3 million jobs in the second quarter.
The total cost of the plan to support the U.S. economy should come out to 814 billion dollars while the CBO anticipated amount of around 862 billion dollars from a previous estimate.