Is the Federal Stimulus Creating Tech Jobs?
Publication: Computer World Patrick Thibodeau October 22, 2009 WASHINGTON — One obvious follow-up question to the U.S. government’s announcement this month that the federal stimulus has created or saved 30,000 jobs so far is this: How many were IT and engineering jobs? Unfortunately, there isn’t an answer. There is no information at Recovery.gov concerning the types of jobs either saved or created from the $16 billion in contracts awarded so far, representing 2% of the $787 billion stimulus. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board that provides Recovery.gov, designed to allow citizens to track funding, is posting only what it gets in reports from recipients. “We are not analyzing it in terms of types of jobs,” said a board spokeswoman. “That sort of analysis may be made at a later date, once we get the additional recipient reports on grants and loans posted on the Web site,” but there’s no time frame for providing it, she said. The Recovery.gov site includes interactive map
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