Report: Stimulus has saved 90K N.C. jobs
The federal stimulus bill passed in early 2009 has created or saved 90,000 jobs in North Carolina, according to a report by the Council of Economic Advisers released Friday.
The report did not break the gains down by metro areas.
The number was arrived at by looking at the results of three different measurements and then averaging the findings. Those three approaches considered the percentage of all non-farm jobs in North Carolina, the percentage of stimulus dollars the state has received, and the parcelling out of job growth among 42 industries according to how concentrated they are in each state.
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Nationally, the report says, 3.05 million jobs have been created or saved.
In the region, the stimulus job affect in South Carolina was 41,000; Virginia, 73,000; Georgia, 91,000.
Seeing the biggest bang were California, 357,000 and Texas, 225,000.
Some 618,000, or 20 percent, of the jobs created or saved were in various forms of construction; 292,000 in health care and health IT; 254,000 in environmental cleanup; and 827,000 in clean energy.
The report did not specify North Carolina job impacts by category.
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