Economics

Your Tax Dollars at Work Not Creating Jobs

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From the Cincinnati Enquirer on the subject of stimulus spending and job creation:

[After four projects for new construction,] most of the rest of the highway stimulus money will go for routine maintenance or resurfacing work. Construction so far on all the projects has created or retained fewer than 200 jobs since the money started flowing this spring, an Enquirer analysis shows….

Only seven jobs had been created or retained by Northern Kentucky projects under way through August, according to state records.

More here.