Jobs created: Close enough for government work?

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The White House is pushing back on the alleged ‘fiction’’ of jobs created or saved under the $787-billion federal stimulus bill -- particularly what it views as the fiction surrounding reports that Recovery.gov, the official online accounting of where all the money is going, listed all sorts of money going into congressional districts that don’t exist.

At the same time, the White House is citing an odd statistic in noting that the government doesn’t always get its numbers quite right the first time around.

See the White House’s attempt to separate ‘fact’’ from ‘fiction’’ in the Swamp.

-- Mark Silva