Texas could add 141,500 jobs if President Obama’s $450 billion American Jobs Act is passed, according to a White House breakdown.
The breakdown includes 64,100 jobs in construction, 39,500 teaching and first responder jobs and another 37,900 jobs presumably produced through job training funding, according to an Associated Press story this afternoon:
The president unveiled the plan Thursday night. It would also cut the payroll tax for 390,000 Texas companies and spend $8 billion on projects and workers within the state.
Job creation with the first stimulus, an estimated $862 billion in 2009, has also been an expensive proposition in Texas. A Texas Watchdog report in November of 2010 found several Texas agencies spending millions of dollars for a handful of jobs.
On Thursday, Texas Watchdog reported that a troubled Weatherization Assistance Program in Texas has spent more than $226,000 for each of the 1,041 construction-level people involved in weatherizing the homes of low-income Texans.
According to figures kept by the State Comptroller, Texas spent more than $8.4 billion to create or save more than 41,000 jobs, at an average cost of $204,922 a job. That average is likely to climb because Texas has more than $3.3 billion more in stimulus to spend, most of it to be spent by people currently employed with stimulus dollars.
On Thursday, Texas Watchdog reported that a troubled Weatherization Assistance Program in Texas has spent more than $226,000 for each of the 1,041 construction-level people involved in weatherizing the homes of low-income Texans.
According to figures kept by the State Comptroller, Texas spent more than $8.4 billion to create or save more than 41,000 jobs, at an average cost of $204,922 a job. That average is likely to climb because Texas has more than $3.3 billion more in stimulus to spend, most of it to be spent by people currently employed with stimulus dollars.
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