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Stimulus Saved/Created 325,000 Teaching Jobs
By MATT APUZZO and BRETT J. BLACKLEDGE | AP
WASHINGTON — Nearly 650,000 jobs have been saved or created under President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan, the government said Friday, and the White House declared the nation on track to meet the president’s goal of 3.5 million by the end of next year.
New job numbers from businesses, contractors, state and local governments, nonprofit groups and universities were released, showing 640,329 positions credited to the stimulus, according to the independent federal board monitoring the program’s progress.
Teachers and other education employees represent the largest number of jobs in the report — about 325,000. With state budgets in crisis, federal aid helped governors avoid major cuts in education, which officials said spared many teachers and school workers from the unemployment line.
But Republican Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, voicing the skepticism of many critics, has warned about putting too much stock in claims that the stimulus saved that many jobs. Chris Johnston, who oversees Indiana’s stimulus spending for Daniels, said Friday the state reported under the stimulus requirements that 13,000 teaching jobs were created or saved. But he’s not sure whether any of those people actually would have been laid off.
“I think that’s a hypothetical. I’m not sure we can say one way or another,” Johnston said.
Republican Senate Leader Mitch McConnell said “it’s bewildering” to see the Obama administration’s job-creation claims when 3 million jobs have been lost since Congress approved the program.
•The new stimulus report follows the administration’s admission that earlier counts of jobs credited to the stimulus were faulty. A review by the Associated Press found the government’s early report overstated thousands of jobs saved or created.
Despite White House promises that errors would be corrected, the latest stimulus job count still includes mistakes such as the ones discovered in the AP’s earlier sampling of contracts.
ron967
12 days ago
6 comments
President Obama is doing an EXCELLENT job. So far, I'm satisfied by almost everything he has done. I like how he is raising the MPG on motor vehicles--something that the Republicans never even bothered doing. I like how he is going to be part of the Internal Global Warming Committee--something that Bush never cared about. I like how he is going to regulate corrupted Wall Street. I like how he is going to reform health care. Finally, we have a president who is looking out for the well-being of his own country first and not some faraway places like Iraq and Afghanistan. I'M GLAD ALMOST ALL PART OF THE MEDIA ARE PRO-OBAMA AND HIS ADMINISTRATION. The Republicans suck.
broadwaylady1
17 days ago
72 comments
Almost all parts of the media are pro-Obama and his administration.
kimtaylor
22 days ago
268 comments
Is "saved jobs" a new economic measure? How is it measured? By height?
This is such a joke and the fact that the mainstream media does not challenge these farcical statements is even sadder. The 4th estate has become the Pravda...
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