R.I. reports 1,703 stimulus-created jobs

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PROVIDENCE — Nearly all of the 1,700 state jobs that have been paid for by federal stimulus money come from five departments, state officials said Friday afternoon.

On Thursday — the same day federal authorities reported that direct federal spending has created only six jobs in Rhode Island — the governor’s Office of Economic Recovery and Reinvestment said it had told the federal government that stimulus money funneled through the state has paid for work equating to 1,703 jobs.

Amy Kempe, spokeswoman for Governor Carcieri, said at a Friday afternoon news conference that that number “doesn’t really have much impact on the 75,000 Rhode Islanders who are out of work today.”

She added, “We are working every single day to turn this economy around.”

On Friday, the office offered a breakdown of where in state government those jobs came from. Little other detail was available, officials said, as they continue to analyze the data. Many of the jobs are in the state Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, which accounted for 558.54 full-time equivalents. A full-time equivalent accounts for part-time and seasonal jobs by tallying them as a proportional fraction of a full-time job. Other departments accounting for the new positions included the Department of Labor and Training, the Department of Corrections, the Rhode Island Airport Corporation, and the Department of Transportation.

http://www.projo.com/economy/STIMULUS_MUNICIPALITIES_10-17-09_09G4DM3_v14.38ac4ab.html

[PBS Poll-435]

1. But But But, Bill O'Reilly via Juan Williams reported that RI had only *6* jobs

Created from the stimulus.


:shrug:









Yeah, I know.

[fasttense]

2. I'm confused. Which is it - 6 or 1,703?

"On Thursday — the same day federal authorities reported that direct federal spending has created only six jobs in Rhode Island — the governor’s Office of Economic Recovery and Reinvestment said it had told the federal government that stimulus money funneled through the state has paid for work equating to 1,703 jobs."

Or is it $750,000 a job?:

"Among more eye-popping numbers was a report that $116 million had been distributed to 152 individuals, which would average about $750,000 an individual. “This is preliminary data. We expect some of it to change,” said Jamia McDonald, director of the economic recovery office. “I don’t expect that it will stay static.”

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3. GREAT!! only 6 million jobs more needed for recovery to be real!! eom

[Jennicut]

4. Here is the info on Recovery.gov for RI

http://www.recovery.gov/transparency/pages/home.aspx?State=RI&datasource=recipient

There are contracts, loans, and grants awarded there. The only jobs reported are the ones from federal contracts.
Colorado is reporting the most jobs through federal contracts, 4695.
The #'s will fluctuate as more data comes in.