$400 Million In Stimulus Money Has Gone To New Hampshire This Year, And Only 50 New Jobs Have Been Created, Only 34 Full Time

The Union Leader reports that "more than $400 million in federal stimulus money has come to New Hampshire this year, and more is on the way. The Office of Legislative Budget Assistant reported last week that $413.6 million made its way to the state under a list of programs that involve education, highways, environmental, health and human services, energy and law enforcement. … So far, a total of 50 jobs have been created by the funding, 34 of them full time. The OES will be headed by a director whom Gov. John Lynch has not yet appointed. All five OES jobs are described as full-time temporary positions that will go out of existence in September 2011, the end of the federal fiscal year."

So that amounts to $8.32 million per job. Taxpayer money well spent. Tweet