Most (reported jobs saved by the simulus funds) were teachers’ jobs that states said were saved when stimulus money averted a need for layoffs.
Of course, counting jobs that were saved can be a squishier proposition than counting jobs that were created.
Indiana, for example, reported saving or creating 13,232 education jobs with its stimulus money, but Cris Johnston, the director of the government efficiency division of the state budget office, said that it was difficult to say whether the state would have actually lost those jobs without the money.
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