Stimulus Jobs Overstated on Government Website

Stimulus Jobs Overstated on Government Website

"A Brevard County child care center claims it used stimulus dollars to save 129 jobs when in fact the money was simply used to give raises."

STIMULUS WATCH: Stimulus jobs overstated in report

"The AP reviewed a sample of federal contracts, not all 9,000 reported to date, and discovered errors in one in six jobs credited to the $787 billion stimulus program — or 5,000 of the 30,000 jobs claimed so far"

"Even in its limited review, the AP found job counts that were more than 10 times as high as the actual number of paid positions; jobs credited to the stimulus program that were counted two and sometimes more than four times; and other jobs that were credited to stimulus spending when none was produced."