It hasn't. From today's Rapid City Journal:
More than nine months into President Barack Obama's $787 billion stimulus program, South Dakota is well below projections in a key measurement of success: jobs.
In pitching the massive federal spending package late last winter, the Obama administration offered state breakdowns in jobs expected to be saved and created.
In South Dakota, it was 10,000. But the state is well short of that goal and is clearly behind track to achieve it over two years.
According to a running total on the federal Recovery and Reinvestment Act Web site, 2,200 jobs in South Dakota have been created or saved. But even that figure is difficult to assess, since it doesn't distinguish between new and preserved jobs. In addition, companies reporting the job numbers admit there is a great deal of latitude in the way they report the numbers.
So even 2,200 "saved or created" is a stretch.
The stimulus is a 50 state failure.
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