As the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act begins to effect, communities across the country are beginning to evaluate the impact on their local economies, and how best to quickly and efficiently put people to work. The map below provides a state-by-state look at how many jobs are expected to be created or saved by the plan. Roll over your state to see how President Obama's economic recovery plan will benefit your community:
Already a number of projects have been identified that will help get local economies moving again. Tampabays10.com reported on a local project that will account for some of the 207,000 projected Florida jobs that will be created or saved by the plan:
An expansion project at Moffit Cancer Center is getting on the fast track thanks to the newly passed stimulus plan. Moffitt is outgrowing the amount of room it has on the University of South Florida campus. Moffitt will compete for $1 billion in grants from the National Institutes of Health to expand two new floors for Moffit's M2Gen project, creating 300 jobs in Tampa Bay. 200 of those would be in construction, and the other 100 in research."The intent of the recovery plan is job creation, says U.S. Representative Kathy Castor. "And it's not just construction jobs, we wanna create jobs for the 21st century in science and technology. These are the high wage jobs that our students will stay in the Tampa Bay area for and our community will thrive with the higher wage jobs."
An expansion project at Moffit Cancer Center is getting on the fast track thanks to the newly passed stimulus plan.
Moffitt is outgrowing the amount of room it has on the University of South Florida campus.
Moffitt will compete for $1 billion in grants from the National Institutes of Health to expand two new floors for Moffit's M2Gen project, creating 300 jobs in Tampa Bay. 200 of those would be in construction, and the other 100 in research.
"The intent of the recovery plan is job creation, says U.S. Representative Kathy Castor. "And it's not just construction jobs, we wanna create jobs for the 21st century in science and technology. These are the high wage jobs that our students will stay in the Tampa Bay area for and our community will thrive with the higher wage jobs."
The Greenville Online reports: how provisions in the ARRA will help the U.S. textile industry:
The textile industry is encouraged by a provision in the economic stimulus package that it says should at least protect many South Carolina jobs and possibly create some.An amendment to the package requires that fabric for uniforms for the U.S. Coast Guard and the Transportation Security Administration, which monitors airports and other transportation systems, be made in U.S. plants and that the uniforms, including body armor and holsters, be assembled here as well.... There are currently about 25,300 workers employed in South Carolina textile operations, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. That number is almost half (47,000) of the textile workers employed in the state four years ago.“It’s a big deal. It all adds up. People will be rehired or working more hours or they won’t be laid off,” Wood said.“This is a win for U.S. manufacturing,” said Richard Dillard, spokesman for Spartanburg-based Milliken and Co.
Job estimates are derived from an analysis of the overall employment impact of the ARRA conducted by Christina Romer, Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Jared Bernstein, Chief Economist for the Vice President.
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