Posted on 11/02/2009 8:36:49 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
More than half the 14,000 jobs created or saved by the federal economic stimulus in Minnesota are in public schools.
Federal and state officials are reporting about 7,400 full-time teaching and school support staff jobs linked to the stimulus through the end of September.
The U.S. Department of Education issued a report Monday detailing 7,421 stimulus jobs in the state's education system.
Minnesota Management and Budget officials counted 7,380 K-12 school jobs created or saved by stimulus spending of $634 million.
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No shock here... most stimulus jobs are government jobs, and schools are government jobs.
So does this mean Minnesota now has to come up with the extra tax dollars to keep them on the payroll from here on out?
I don’t know, but, I would not be surprised.
Elections, tomorrow and the education types are trying their best to shame us into voting for more taxes to support their socialist/Obama agenda.
NO!!
Every state has used the stimulus money to save government jobs. They are just postponing the inevitable as the states are in bad shape fiscally not only in FY-2010, but also 2011.
Seems like the agenda is to create a whole bunch of new government jobs that we’ll never be able to get rid of. :/
finally, a little bit of the truth...
The list, ping
Public employee pension funds are failing and eat up over half the budget in some states...
Public employee pension funds are failing and eat up over half the budget in some states...
For the millionth time, the reason they get a pension is because they make pittens during their 40 year career. Sheesh. The people in the private sector make tens of thousands more a year than the selfless government worker who gives themselves to the United States...Military anyone????
Perhaps. Or perhaps some over generous pensions are the product of a corrupt political process where a politically active union was sitting on both sides of the bargaining table. Perhaps it's common for politically determined pay to inaccurately reflect a job's overall value, leaving taxpayers on the hook for years on end for work that wasn't worth even the "pittance" that was paid up front, let alone the black hole of the pension.
To seriously think that taxpayers are well served by any arrangement that continues to pay people for three or four decades after they've done anything useful, you'd have to be an SEIU enforcer.
Senator Klobuchar
http://klobuchar.senate.gov/inthenews_detail.cfm?id=309042&;
“In the nation, this bill will provide 3.5 million jobs in the next two years,” said Klobuchar, “Ninety percent of them will be in the private sector,” she said.
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Shocking!
U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn
http://klobuchar.senate.gov/inthenews_detail.cfm?id=309042&;
The senator said 56,000 of those jobs will be created in Minnesota, with the 8th Congressional District landing 7,400 of them.
She cited the Essar Steel Minnesota steel mill/taconite mine project in Nashwauk, which would create an estimated 700 permanent jobs, and the PolyMet copper/nickel/precious metals project in the footprint of the former LTV Mining Co. near Hoyt Lakes that would directly create 400 jobs as mining ventures critical to the area’s economic future.
i.e. no help for the REAL economy. O is pretty stupid or is an amazing liar.
Wow. I feel better now, knowing I have to send my earnings via taxes to Minnesota, where they supposedly voted Al Franken into the U.S. Senate (with trunkloads of late-found ballots).....is this a great country, or what?
Oregone has spent most of its stimulus money on so called education with the left wing universities getting a big slice.
Wonder, who the teacher union thugs and left wing anti America Professors voted for in 2008?
http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2009/10/most_stimulus_jobs_in_educatio.html
Most stimulus jobs in education so far: Oregon State University
By Betsy Hammond, The Oregonian
October 12, 2009, 11:57AM
Oregon State University created or saved nearly 400 jobs, including for professors, with federal stimulus money.
When the state reported this morning how federal stimulus money has been spent so far, I expected the state’s largest school district — Portland Public Schools — to have gotten the most money and created the most jobs of any education outlet in the state.
But I was wrong. According to the state’s figures, Oregon State University has preserved or created the equivalent of 394 full-time jobs by spending $17.8 million of state fiscal stabilization funds.
Portland schools, for their part, have created or saved 324 full-time jobs, many in special education, with $10.2 million of their stimulus money, the state says.
Portland State University comes in next, with 320 jobs created or saved. Mike Green, Oregon’s associate vice chancellor for finance, explains that the university system ranked high in job preservation because it spent all its general-purpose stimulus money — some $52 million so far — on faculty salaries and benefits, so every dime saved or created a teaching or research job.
Beaverton schools, the state’s third-biggest school district, report they saved or created 281 jobs with stimulus money, primarily with general purpose fiscal stabilization money.
Education sector jobs figured huge in today’s stimulus report. Nearly two of every three jobs paid for by stimulus spending in Oregon since February were education jobs, primarily for teachers and professors, the state reported.
The state’s way of reporting the numbers is hard to follow. I’ll use that as my excuse for getting some of my facts mixed up in my earlier post, including understating the jobs created or saved at Portland Public Schools. Read Tuesday’s Oregonian for a definitive take by my colleague Harry Esteve.
-Betsy Hammond
I forgot to ping you to this response re how left wing Oregone has spent its stimulus funds.
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