Stimulus map update: On pace to ‘create or save’ 3.5 BILLION jobs?

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The Fannie Taylor Home for the Aged in Jacksonville, Fla. got a lot of bang for its stimulus buck. It reported creating 127 jobs with its low-income housing grant. Just one problem: The grant was worth less than $28,000, so that each job supposedly “created or saved” cost less than $220.

A spokeswoman for the Fannie Taylor home did not respond to The Examiner‘s request for comment. But the organization’s report to Recovery.gov provides a laundry list of more than 30 examples of jobs (“…beautician, bus driver, certified nursing assistant, certified occupancy specialist, cook, physical therapist…”) and concludes that “receipt of Recovery Act funds allowed these types of jobs to remain substantially in tact (sic).”

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