Obama Claims 228,000 Jobs For NY

Barack Obama has talked about three to four million jobs created from his economic stimulus and now the White House has helped to break it down for the Empire State. According to them, 228,000 jobs could be created if things go to plan. Of course, the whole "going to plan" part is what worries many of us that actually want to create jobs more so than tax breaks.

From The Journal News:

WASHINGTON - New York state would gain an estimated 228,000 jobs over the next two years under the economic stimulus legislation working its way through Congress, White House officials said yesterday.

California is expected to gain the most jobs - 421,000 of the 3 million to 4 million positions that the administration says could be created for transportation projects, sewage system upgrades, weatherizing homes, making federal buildings more energy efficient, creating electronic medical records and expanding access to broadband.
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New York lost 102,900 private-sector jobs in the last three months of 2008 as the unemployment rate climbed to 7 percent.

New York is set to lose more jobs in the immediate future and no one knows for sure how many of those 228,000 are counted as saving jobs that haven't been lost yet. There is definitely plenty of opportunity to be had, whether it be building more mass transit capabilities, fixing roads, building clean forms of energy and the grid to supply it across the state (and country). The biggest problem though is how much of the bill will be diluted and watered down, and unfortunately that is happening in the Senate right now.