In Oregon, where lawmakers are spending $176 million to supplement the federal stimulus, Democrats are taking credit for a remarkable feat: creating 3,236 new jobs in the program's first three months.
But those jobs lasted on average only 35 hours -- a little less than one work week!
After that, those workers were effectively back unemployed, according to an Associated Press analysis of state spending and hiring data.
By the state's accounting, a job is a job, whether it lasts three hours, three days, three months, or a lifetime.
In defense of the flawed statistics, Oregon's Senate president said, “sometimes some work for an individual is better than no work at all.”
The spin meter is working overtime declaring that very temporary jobs are part of the stimulus job creation numbers.
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