States are already announcing the numbers of jobs the U.S. economic stimulus has helped them create or save in advance of a sweeping national survey to be released on October 30, and the amounts will likely be stronger than those in a similar report posted last week, reports Reuters.
Vermont, Ohio and Illinois say the stimulus has created or saved more than 23,000 jobs total in their states through their shares of the $222 billion of grants and loans currently available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
Original source: Reuters
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