Posted by Deb Price (The Detroit News) on Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 4:02 PM
White House says 22,514 stimulus jobs created in Michigan
The Obama administration said today that 22,514 direct jobs have been created so far in Michigan out of the $787 billion stimulus package.
But Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-Holland, criticized the announcement. "You have to looked at what's happened to the economy overall since the stimulus bill was enacted, and things have gotten steadily worse," Hoekstra said. "Michigan's economy has deteriorated. Sure you can throw some money around, but look at the big picture of the economy. We've saddled our kids with $800 billion in debt and all we have is an economy that has deteriorated."
