U.S. Creates Jobs at Cost of $88,571 Apiece
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
A $9-billion government program that advocates claimed would create hundreds of thousands of jobs for Americans who lost theirs in the last recession produced only 35,000 at a cost of $88,571 each, according to congressional auditors. The program was enacted in 1983.
The General Accounting Office, in a report released this week, concludes that the 1983 Emergency Jobs Appropriations Act was ineffective, blaming both Congress and the Reagan Aministration for its failure.
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