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Hot Air » Top Picks: 25% of California “saved or created jobs” bogus
Clayton Cramer's BLOG: What A Surprise: "Jobs Saved" Number Bogus
Articles on National Review Online: The Job Con -- By: The Editors
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RT DylanRatigan: Counting jobssavedis good politics,fuzzy math http://bit.ly/3mBxRZ Good PoliticsRUKidding ItProvesHeLies #tcot #tlot 20 days ago |
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Many California jobs 'saved' by stimulus funds weren't in jeopardy http://tinyurl.com/ycqjqgg 21 days ago |
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RT @Mommentator: RT @chosen7stone: Report: ¼ of jobs "saved" in CA were never in danger. http://bit.ly/2y2bSy #stimulus #fail 21 days ago |
25% of California “saved or created jobs” bogus
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... Count California as the latest victim of the Porkulus Flu, in which job numbers get excruciatingly inflated while the state runs a fever of unemployment. The Sacramento Bee lances the “saved or created” boil of the Golden State’s stimulus accounting, thanks to a closer look at the claims made by the California State University system, which credited half of its workforce as “saved or created” jobs. The CSU admitted that these were not real numbers — and inadvertently revealed what everyone already knows about budgeting in Sacramento and Washington DC: Up to one-fourth of ...
What A Surprise: "Jobs Saved" Number Bogus
Clayton Cramer's BLOG —
What A Surprise: "Jobs Saved" Number Bogus From the November 6, 2009 Sacramento Bee: Up to one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reported as saved by federal stimulus money in California probably never were in danger, a Bee review has found. California State University officials reported late last week that they saved more jobs with stimulus money than the number of jobs saved in Texas – and in 44 other states. In a required state report to the federal government, the university ...
The Job Con -- By: The Editors
Articles on National Review Online —
... highly unlikely that the government is finding more productive uses for that $787 billion than the private sector would have. Every day brings a new report vindicating Fama’s argument. If we divide the number of dollars spent by the number of jobs the White House claims were saved or created, the result is a cost of $160,000 per job. And there are plenty of reasons to be skeptical of the administration’s claims. In California, thousands of teachers’ jobs “saved” by the stimulus were never in danger of elimination. ...
Gates of Vienna News Feed 11/8/2009
Gates of Vienna —
... Many California Jobs ‘Saved’ By Stimulus Never in Jeopardy 25% of 110,000 reported positions never in danger — ‘Not a real number of people … like a budget number’ Up to one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reported as saved by federal stimulus money in California probably never were in danger, a Bee review has found. California State University officials reported late last week that they saved more jobs with stimulus money than the number of jobs saved in Texas — and in 44 other states. ...
The State of The Stimulus: Not So Stimulatin' When It Comes to Jobs
Hit & Run —
... , so far a little over 13,000 contracts
went to independent contractors and over 116,000 grants went to
public agencies. Also, reports have shown that the stimulus
funds have been used to pay for employees whose jobs were never
in danger (see
California for instance). ...
