While the President recently claimed his February 2009 stimulus bill will “save or create 1.5 million jobs in 2010 after saving or creating as many as 2 million jobs thus far,” the table below compares the White House’s original projections of state-by-state job creation with the actual change in state payroll employment through February 2010, using the latest data from the U.S. Department of Labor. The data show that only Alaska and the District of Columbia have seen net job creation since the enactment of stimulus, and even those levels fall far short of what the White House originally forecast.
To see how the Democrats’ stimulus has failed your state, see the table below.
|
State |
|
Actual Change in Jobs Through February 2010 |
|
Alabama |
+52,000 |
-58,000 |
|
Alaska |
+8,000 |
+900 |
|
Arizona |
+70,000 |
-100,400 |
|
Arkansas |
+31,000 |
-28,700 |
|
California |
+396,000 |
-586,300 |
|
Colorado |
+59,000 |
-83,900 |
|
Connecticut |
+41,000 |
-45,400 |
|
Delaware |
+11,000 |
-14,300 |
|
District of Columbia |
+12,000 |
+1,600 |
|
Florida |
+206,000 |
-211,500 |
|
Georgia |
+106,000 |
-136,200 |
|
Hawaii |
+15,000 |
-15,600 |
|
Idaho |
+17,000 |
-19,500 |
|
Illinois |
+148,000 |
-192,200 |
|
Indiana |
+75,000 |
-76,700 |
|
Iowa |
+37,000 |
-33,600 |
|
Kansas |
+33,000 |
-45,900 |
|
Kentucky |
+48,000 |
-38,400 |
|
Louisiana |
+50,000 |
-36,700 |
|
Maine |
+15,000 |
-12,200 |
|
Maryland |
+66,000 |
-68,300 |
|
Massachusetts |
+79,000 |
-79,900 |
|
Michigan |
+109,000 |
-112,000 |
|
Minnesota |
+66,000 |
-62,300 |
|
Mississippi |
+30,000 |
-26,500 |
|
Missouri |
+69,000 |
-72,600 |
|
Montana |
+11,000 |
-9,200 |
|
Nebraska |
+23,000 |
-21,700 |
|
Nevada |
+34,000 |
-61,600 |
|
New Hampshire |
+16,000 |
-2,800 |
|
New Jersey |
+100,000 |
-81,600 |
|
New Mexico |
+22,000 |
-21,200 |
|
New York |
+215,000 |
-163,300 |
|
North Carolina |
+105,000 |
-94,100 |
|
North Dakota |
+8,000 |
-200 |
|
Ohio |
+133,000 |
-177,900 |
|
Oklahoma |
+40,000 |
-52,900 |
|
Oregon |
+44,000 |
-53,100 |
|
Pennsylvania |
+143,000 |
-141,100 |
|
Rhode Island |
+12,000 |
-13,000 |
|
South Carolina |
+50,000 |
-22,800 |
|
South Dakota |
+10,000 |
-8,500 |
|
Tennessee |
+70,000 |
-81,300 |
|
Texas |
+269,000 |
-236,800 |
|
Utah |
+32,000 |
-29,900 |
|
Vermont |
+8,000 |
-3,900 |
|
Virginia |
+93,000 |
-100,700 |
|
Washington |
+75,000 |
-89,800 |
|
West Virginia |
+20,000 |
-22,200 |
|
Wisconsin |
+70,000 |
-95,500 |
|
Wyoming |
+8,000 |
-13,000 |
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