White House Tally Appears to Overstate Stimulus Jobs

Wall Street Journal by Louise Radnofsky, Maurice Tamman | Nov. 4, 2009 (News Report)

The number of jobs the Obama administration credits to federal stimulus money could be overstated by at least 20,000 of the 640,000 claimed, a Wall Street Journal analysis found.

Recipients of the government grants and contracts appear to have made mistakes when estimating the number of jobs that have been saved or created, according to the Journal's review. Some recipients said they were confused by forms that asked how they spent the money. Full Story »

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 by Fred Gatlin - Nov. 4, 2009

I would feel better about this article if it came from another source. Recently the Wall Street Journal has been less than even handed on politically related stories.

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