Where is your stimulus money going? In Baker City, Ore., the Bureau of Land Management is putting $256,000 of it toward “rattlesnake stewardship.” It’s the latest addition to our Stimulus Jobs Map.
Clear Pacific, Inc. reports creating 8 jobs on this “snake contract.” But like more than a thousand of the 30,000 stimulus contractors, they reported the jobs despite not having started the work, and not having received any of the money. Because these firms are not supposed to provide projections — and especially because the Obama administration has used the jobs reports to extrapolate into future years of stimulus job creation — we’ve added them to our “Not Really Created or Saved” stimulus job map.
So far, it contains more than 100 contracts and tells the stories of more than 77,000 jobs reported that weren’t really created or saved by the stimulus package.
