Atlanta Education Jobs Supported by Stimulus
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has created or retained thousands of Atlanta education jobs and nearly 10,000 education-related positions throughout the State of Georgia.
The state recently released a report detailing exactly how it has spent the federal stimulus funding it received. During Q1 of the ARRA, Georgia spent $701,567,169 and created or preserved a total of 23,879 jobs. The state has been awarded a total of $3,281,223,879.
At the beginning of the year, the White House predicted that stimulus spending would create a total of 3.6 million jobs throughout the country, with 106,000 of those jobs being created in Georgia. During September, it was estimated that so far about 1 million jobs had been created or preserved.