The number of jobs in the U.S. is currently 129.7 million. So to justify the Administration's current claim of 2.8 million jobs "created or saved" by stimulus, they need to also claim that without that stimulus there would be only 126.9 million jobs. That's exactly what they do, displayed as the "baseline projection" level in the graphic below from an April 14, 2010 report:
White House Caught Altering Stimulus Baseline Projection by 7 Million Jobs
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