For every 3 million new broadband lines deployed, nearly 300,000 economy-wide jobs are created.

Nearly two-thirds of new jobs in 2007 were generated by businesses between 1 and 5 years old.

In 2007, over 50 percent of new jobs created came from small businesses, namely those with fewer than fifty employees.

Already, stimulus funds created 640,000 new jobs that would not have existed but for the recovery bill.

Without the stimulus of the president’s recovery bill,

Another recent report estimates that a “stimulus package that spurs or supports $10 billion of investment in 1 year in broadband networks will support an estimated 498,000 new or retained U.S. jobs for one year.”

One recent study estimated that a seven percentage point increase in broadband adoption “could result in [direct annual income growth of] $92 billion through an additional 2.4 million jobs created or saved annually, $662 million saved per year in reduced healthcare costs…and $134 billion per year in total direct economic impact of accelerating broadband across the United States.”

Experian PLC’s Hitwise says that traffic to the top 500 retail Web sites was down 9% Nov. 30 compared with last year’s Cyber Monday, as shoppers shifted their browsing to larger retailers. Traffic at the most visited site, Amazon.com Inc., increased 44%, and visits to Staples.com increased 61%.

The total number of online shoppers increased 6% on Nov. 30 from a year earlier, even as the amount that each shopper spent declined 2% to $102.19.

According to Coleman Bazelon, an economist for the Brattle Group, the market value of the TV airwaves if used for wireless broadband would be about $64 billion. Those airwaves are worth about $12 billion if they remain devoted to TV broadcasts.