The Georgia nonprofit's inflated job count is among persisting errors in the government's latest effort to measure the effect of the $787 billion stimulus plan despite White House promises last week that the new data would undergo an "extensive review" to root out errors discovered in an earlier report.
About two-thirds of the 14,506 jobs claimed to be saved under one federal office, the Administration for Children and Families at Health and Human Services, actually weren't saved at all, according to a review of the latest data by The Associated Press. Instead, that figure includes more than 9,300 existing employees in hundreds of local agencies who received pay raises and benefits and whose jobs weren't saved.
But officials defended the practice of counting raises as saved jobs.
"If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,"
WTF??
I didn't get a raise this year... and we actually made money.
ReplyDeleteBut what did happen was my tax dollars were taken and used to give raises to government employees.
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My company made record profits again, but nobody got raises this year.
ReplyDeleteSo do I count as a job lost?
Dude, great point.
ReplyDeleteUsing Obama's logic you and I LOST our jobs. I think we need to be subtracted from the overall number.
"If I give you a raise, it is going to save a portion of your job,"
ReplyDeleteActually that means they can't hire additional staff. Rather than give 5 people a raise and "save a portion of their job" why don't they just hire 1 new employee?