A good report on the Stiumlus and Highway jobs.
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Millington told [9] the Salt Lake Tribune‘s Brandon Loomis that the Utah DOT’s estimate of six to seven thousand jobs saved or created by stimulus funding — an estimate produced by a federal formula — was likely inflated. According to the Tribune, Millington said some of the construction workers on stimulus projects would be counted twice because they would be employed on one contract and then another.
Millington told the Tribune that the estimate was as high as it was “because the stimulus money was supposed to create all these jobs.”
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http://www.propublica.org/ion/stimul...o-easy-job-724