{"id":487,"date":"2009-02-12T21:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/12\/how-many-jobs-will-the-stimulus-create-in-the-north-country\/"},"modified":"2009-02-12T21:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T01:28:00","slug":"how-many-jobs-will-the-stimulus-create-in-the-north-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/02\/12\/how-many-jobs-will-the-stimulus-create-in-the-north-country\/","title":{"rendered":"How many jobs will the stimulus create in the North Country?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of debate over just how meaningful these numbers are, but the White House has offered estimates of what the stimulus package will do for each congressional district.<\/p>\n<p>In the 20th NY district, which includes a big chunk of the eastern Adirondacks, the Champlain Valley, and the Glens Falls area, the jobs benefit is placed at 8,000.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest population chunk in the 20th is further south and in a ring around the Capital District (it&#8217;s a weirdly gerrymandered district), so it&#8217;s unclear how much of that would trickle north.  <\/p>\n<p>In the 23rd NY district, which is far more North Country specific, the White House puts the number at 7,800.<\/p>\n<p>The 24th NY district, which includes Old Forge and a big (but mostly people-free) chunk of the western Adirondacks, stands to gain 7,600 jobs.  <\/p>\n<p>I know, I know &#8211; these numbers are big puffy political promises at this point. And because the White House describes these as jobs that will be created or &#8220;saved&#8221; it will be hard to yardstick success.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?  If the stimulus does work that well, will it be enough to soften the downturn in the region?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of debate over just how meaningful these numbers are, but the White [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}