"Saved" jobs lies: California

For the first time in 26 years, the nation's unemployment rate crossed into double-digits. Meanwhile, reports are still coming in that the Obama administration is misleading the public with its claims that its stimulus bill has saved jobs.

The Sacramento Bee reports on California chicanery:

Up to one-fourth of the 110,000 jobs reported as saved by federal stimulus money in California probably never were in danger, a Bee review has found.

California State University officials reported late last week that they saved more jobs with stimulus money than the number of jobs saved in Texas – and in 44 other states.

In a required state report to the federal government, the university system said the $268.5 million it received in stimulus funding through October allowed it to retain 26,156 employees.

That total represents more than half of CSU's statewide work force. However, university officials confirmed Thursday that half their workers were not going to be laid off without the stimulus dollars.

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