Obama’s Failed Stimulus: Alabama Job Numbers Don’t Add Up
David Weinberger /
Alabama has received 3 billion dollars of stimulus aid to help “save or create” jobs and cure unemployment. Yet somehow that stimulus aid isn’t helping in curing unemployment or creating new jobs, instead it’s resulting in a state unemployment rate that’s higher than the national unemployment rate of 10.2 percent.
Here’s an illustration of the stimulus creating jobs in Alabama:
The Fort Payne Housing Authority this year got a $540,071 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and mistakenly reported in early October that the stimulus grant would create 7,280 jobs, authority director Pamela E. Darwin said Monday…Actually, the grant to reroof 154 apartments owned by the authority has created 14 jobs, Darwin said, adding that someone at the authority meant to type on a federal survey that the grant would create 7,280 hours of work, not jobs.