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SPIN METER: 'Help Wanted' counting stimulus jobs
PORTLAND, Ore. — How much are politicians straining to convince people
that the government is stimulating the economy? In Oregon, where
lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus,
Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new
jobs in the program's first three months.
But those jobs lasted
on average only 35 hours, or about one work week.
After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed, according
to an Associated Press analysis of state spending and hiring data. By
the state's accounting, a job is a job, whether it lasts three hours,
three days, three months, or a lifetime.
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