That's the 14th highest number of jobs created from the stimulus among states, according to data reported by award recipients in October.
Recipients from Missouri reported on a total of 3,674 awards in the state valued at $2.8 billion. The largest component of those awards -- grants -- accounted for 14,484 of the total jobs reported in the state.
The zip code reporting the highest number of jobs -- 65102 -- is somewhat misleading since that's accounting for state grants, logging Jefferson City as the source of jobs created.
Nationally, the White House claims the $787 billion stimulus package directly saved or created 650,000 jobs.
Republicans in Washington were quick to criticize the reported numbers as inaccurate and only a small portion of the 3 million jobs lost nationally since the stimulus package passed earlier this year. Democrats responded by saying the job creation is a positive sign the Recovery Act is having an intended and tangible impact.
“This is another encouraging sign of progress following yesterday’s news that the economy has begun to grow again for the first time in more than a year, but the President and I will not be satisfied until monthly reports show net job growth," Vice President Joe Biden (D) said in a statement. "We are working every day to create more jobs and we will continue to report on our progress doing so with the Recovery Act in the same transparent way we did today.”
Federal agencies independently validated the estimates over the past month, but errors likely still remain in the dataset.
Note: Contract data and job counts were previously reported on MPN.
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This is proof that the Obama stimulus package is working, and saving our jobs!
This is great news...to bad our unemployment rate is still close to 10 percent. Does this even make up for the jobs we've lost since the beginning of the year?
I can't wait to see how many of these turn out to be falsely reported. Someone should check all the companies owned by Nixon cronies.
As the White House Recovery Board has indicated, and we acknowledged in the story, there are likely still errors in the recipient reports. We will make an effort to dig into the data over coming weeks.
Here's our first follow-up on the data, an analysis of job creation aggregated up to counties. The Recovery Board provides this data by states and zip codes, so the county-level analysis is unique to MPN. Here it is: MO stimulus jobs heavily linked to education; early errors identified.
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