Posted on 10/30/2009 9:45:47 PM PDT by pissant
Washington » Hatch Point Road in San Juan County is in the midst of a makeover courtesy of the federal economic stimulus program.
A crew from Henderson Builders is about a week away from finishing the $850,000 resurfacing project, which the Moab company reported has saved or created 25 jobs.
But the actual count is fewer than eight.
A number of Utah companies and local governments misstated the number of jobs owed to Recovery Act money, according to a Salt Lake Tribune review of federal reports that were made available Friday. The result is a significantly inflated picture of the program's employment impact.
The White House on Friday claimed that nationwide, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act created or saved more than a million jobs, more than 640,000 of those directly reported by recipients of the stimulus funds.
In Utah, the administration said 6,598 jobs had been retained or added because of the extraordinary federal help. But discrepancies were easy to find.
Some entities seemed to create their own criteria, while others double counted employees over multiple contracts. The most common error appeared to be counting temporary or part-time work as a full-time job. Under federal guidelines one job must be the equivalent of full-time work for the entire reporting period, which in this case is three months.
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My brother-in-law, NV state assemblyman, is on the state ways and means committee. This week they had a meeting of the interim finance committee (NV legislature is out of session).
The meeting was to discuss the special federal labor statistics pretaining to new/saved jobs vis a vis stimulus funds .
Evidently the feds want retained/not laid off state workers to be counted as new jobs.
NV wouldn't go along with it.
In the end, the committee relented and reported 6 (six) jobs created instead of the 3 that was more likely.
yitbos
Well, we know ACORN hid embezzlement for years because they didn’t want their “enemies” to use it against them.
Then there’s the State Dept.’s Matthew Hoh who resigned and the administration didn’t want that to get out...
yea I’d say they would shade the truth to protect the citizens. yea that’s it.
I still can’t find a job, so how about a job loss count Obama? How about a “misery index”?
If the previous administration had pulled this “jobs saved” crap, they would have been kicked out of office. The msm would have tarred and feathered them on the way out.
What a bunch of hooey this administration is. What a bunch of crooks and thieves.
You hit the nail on the head!
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