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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MJ who wrote (74390)	10/31/2009 2:07:21 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224755

Of the 640,239 jobs recipients claimed to have created or saved so far, officials said, more than half — 325,000 — were in education. Most were teachers’ jobs that administration officials said were saved when stimulus money averted a need for layoffs New numbers released by the federal government Friday estimate that the federal stimulus package has helped create or save 34,500 total jobs in Washington, making it the state with the third-largest reported number of stimulus jobs, behind California and New York. But there’s a caveat on those job creation numbers: 24,000 of them weren’t in danger in the first place. State officials used a chunk of stimulus money to cover paychecks for 24,000 teachers who were already contracted to finish out the school year. That money came from a pot of stimulus funds given to the state to help offset budget cuts.Without that funding, the money to pay the teachers would have come out of the state general fund, said Jill Satran, Gov. Chris Gregoire’s main adviser on stimulus projects. .Indiana, for example, reported saving or creating 13,232 education jobs with its stimulus money, but Cris Johnston, the director of the government efficiency division of the state budget office, said that it was unlikely the state would have actually lost those jobs without the money. Mr. Johnston said. Indiana, he said had followed federal guidelines in reporting how many full-time jobs were paid for with the stimulus money, New York City officials have said the stimulus helped them save 10,000 teaching jobs, it would have been politically difficult for Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to actually lay off that many teachers while running for re-election and most were already contracted for the school year. What the stimulus money did in education was let the states claim jobs saved that were already funded from the general fund then redirect that money to other programs and projects politicians wanted to save.