RI reports about 200 fewer stimulus-funded jobs
Published: October 30, 2009
Updated: October 30, 2009
PROVIDENCE—Federal stimulus funding administered by Rhode Island’s state government created or sustained nearly 1,490 jobs, or about 13 percent fewer positions than originally reported.
New figures released Friday showed drops that Gov. Don Carcieri’s administration attributed to changes in the methodology used to calculate the job figures.
For example, the state Department of Labor and Training lowered its jobs tally from 470 positions to 252, a decline of more than 46 percent. State officials say the U.S. government told the state to change the way it accounted for a program providing summer jobs to nearly 1,800 teenagers.
The state Department of Corrections reported about 40 fewer jobs after making similar changes.
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The Porkulus is working. Just ask Joe, he told me again and again and again.
Since when is a summer youth job a stimulus job?
That’s a part time job that disappears.
What a freaking joke.
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