ABCNews: $160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That 'Calculator Abuse'Posting its results late this afternoon at Recovery.gov, the White House claimed 640,329 jobs have been created or saved because of the $159 billion in stimulus funds allocated as of Sept. 30....Officials acknowledged the numbers were not exact, saying that states and localities that reported the numbers have made mistakes. ....In recent days, the Recovery Act board has been reviewing all the numbers, with many inaccurate ones having been posted. California's San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission received $5 million in stimulus funds to hire workers to build addition train track for the Union Pacific Railroad in an economically tarnished spot of the Golden State
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Friday, October 30, 2009
$160,000 Per Stimulus Job?
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