Lots of jobs created in MA from stimulus funds

Just over 9,000 jobs were created in Massachusetts in the latter part of 2009 thanks to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. However, it had previously been reported that only 4,700 jobs were created with these funds, which would cause an unassuming citizen to think that the act was not incredibly effective. The larger number reflects jobs in state agencies as well as schools and hospitals, which were not in the previous count. This raised lots of questions about how to report the use of the billions of dollars the federal stimulus funds have provided.

Read the full article from the Boston Globe here