The White House just released its projections for the job creation results of the stimulus package. It looks like good news for Colorado – 60,000 jobs created over the next two years. This seems to be very good news for those Representatives and Senators who supported the stimulus – details below the fold.
According to http://www.coworkforce.com/lmi… , Colorado lost 47,000 jobs in the past 12 months. Although somewhat better than the national rate, it still speaks to widespread economic misery and further losses yet to come. Today the White House posted its projections for each Congressional District in the United States at http://www.whitehouse.gov/asse… . The results for Colorado look very good at first glance; per-District:
CD1 7,900
CD2 9,100
CD3 8,300
CD4 8,800
CD5 8,500
CD6 9,400
CD7 8,000
This will more than offset the 2008 losses, and, hopefully help stem the 2009 losses as well. If this turns out as projected, it will be very bad news for Coffman, and Perlmutter. Even Lamborn might not be safe despite being supported by Colorado Springs – he voted against economic recovery for his district.
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interesting info. Could you check those links though? They don’t seem to go anywhere…or something is is wrong w/ my interwebs.
Oops – the auto-link feature picked up the punctuation after the URL. Fixed, thanks.
No way anyone can make such predictions.
Economists don’t even know whether the stimulus bill will create any jobs.
Because when it does, the Republicans are going to look pretty damn dumb.
and it’s damn “numbers.” Who do they think they are?
FAIL.
Push that much money out there and some jobs will be created. You can discuss how many, how effective they are, is it the best approach. But to say it won’t create any job – that’s an idiotic thing to say.
Claiming the stimulus would only help out districts with Democratic representation? Well, it looks like CD-6 will save or create more jobs than Boulder and Denver! And that seems to be a national trend…
What do you know, yet another dumb right wing argument debunked by a little common sense.
FWIW – we’re hiring for one open position and will probably hire another next month. So there are at least a few spots here and there where there is hiring.
Perlmutter, of course, supported the bill. Corrected.