Tulsa World
By GAVIN OFF World Data Editor
Published: 8/24/2010 2:21 AM
Last Modified: 8/24/2010 5:42 AM
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation has helped create hundreds of new jobs across the state as a result of the federal stimulus bill.
Department contractors are in the process of repaving 495 miles of road, replacing 74 bridges and rehabilitating 64 others.
It's work that might not have been issued without the $464.6 million the department received from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
But several ODOT stimulus projects – each costing hundreds of thousands of dollars – created only four jobs or fewer, federal stimulus data shows.
Although a large push for the stimulus bill was to create jobs, ODOT officials said they were more concerned with beginning projects immediately and pumping that money back into the economy... FULL ARTICLE
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Tue, August 24, 2010
by Crystal Drwenski