Massachusetts Governor Credits Stimulus with 23,000 Jobs

Governor Deval Patrick of Massachusetts said on Wednesday that the federal stimulus package is directly responsible for creating or saving at least twenty-three thousand jobs in Massachusetts since February. State agencies received $4 billion from the national package of $787 billion, and have spent almost half of that. The expenses included about $1.3 billion for [...]

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Maryland Stimulus Jobs at 4,464

State officials from Maryland have reported 4,464 jobs that were directly created or saved by the federal stimulus package. Governor Martin O’Malley’s senior advisor, Michael Enright, says that the state expects further benefits from the plan to begin appearing in greater number in the next reporting period. Maryland also attributes over eight thousand “induced” jobs, [...]

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Federal Contractors Report 30,000 Jobs

Businesses that received federal grants under the terms of the economic stimulus package have reported more than thirty thousand jobs saved or created over the first few months of the program. The numbers were released on Thursday by a government watchdog group. They comprised the first data regarding the effect of the stimulus. The numbers [...]

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Teachers Benefit From Stimulus Spending

Among the demographics that have benefited from the recent effort save jobs via a $787 billion recovery package, teachers seem to have benefited the most. Billions of dollars were sent to states that were on the brink of ordering heavy layoffs in education, but the jobs of estimated tens of thousands of teachers nationwide have [...]

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