Indeed, two of the nation’s most respected forecasters predicted that the AJA would add 1.3-1.9 million jobs in 2012 and more than two million jobs by the end of 2013. The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) also found that most of the AJA’s policies ranked high in budgetary effectiveness, measured by the number of jobs created in 2012-2013 per dollar of budgetary cost.
一些独立经济学家认为，奥巴马计划将于2012-2013年对就业市场实现重大提振。事实上，美国最德高望重的两名预测人士预测2012年“美国就业机会法案”将创造130－190万个就业岗位，而到2013年底创造就业岗位将超过200万。超党派的国会预算办公室也认为按2012-2013年单位美元预算成本创造的就业岗位数来衡量，绝大多数法案政策的预算效益是排名居前的。