Fewer people were sednt to those unemployment rolls because of the sstimulus.
That is a fact.
You can't know that since nobody can. It's probably even money that without the stimulus, the economy would be moving faster now than it is.
The stimulus and the promise of higher taxes that go along with it coupled with the UHC boondoggle is confusing employers and they simply don't know what the cost of hiring an employee will be.
The economy gets better when spending rises. Right now, the policy of the US Government is to slow spending by consumers and spend as much money as they can in the form of graft and favoritism.
This is a bad policy. If the only jobs created are in government, they are not having a ripple effect in like a car company that sells a car and needs to buy parts. The dollar is spent and it's gone.