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Oniva Inc. estimates that the direct stimulus spending has created just under 8,000 tech and telecom jobs, but this is a calculation based on a White House formula that says for approximately every $92,000 in recovery dollars spent, one job is created or saved, said Michael Balsam, the chief solutions officer of Oniva. Oniva tracks government contract spending and has set up a separate site, Recovery.org, to look at stimulus spending specifically and has tallied the amount of technology spending.

Research Area: Stimulus

Tags: stimulus, economy, jobs

Patrick Thibodeau, “Stimulus for tech and telecom $3B, but jobs still guesswork,” Computerworld. November 8, 2009.
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