2009-10-17 — blogspot.com
The stimulus isn't doing a thing to help the unemployment rate in the New York metro area, according to shocking new White House data released yesterday.
The feds have spent a half-billion dollars on 10 of the largest government stimulus contracts in New York City and Long Island -- but created or retained only 54 jobs.
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tvsterling at 03:35 2009-10-18 said:
This is nothing new. NYC has been a galaxy swallowing black hole of the rest of the country's tax dollars for 30 or 40 years anyway. I have read that accounting rules prevent many stimulus jobs from being counted. Nothing new in that either. Permalinkadd a comment | go to forum thread
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