Stimulus Report Accurate?

>> Chip Reed is at the White House tonight and Chip I know the administration is putting out a jobs report card tomorrow what can you tell us about that?

>> Well Katie that report is going to claim that the stimulus has already created or saved hundreds of thousands of jobs but if the administration's first effort at counting stimulus jobs is any guide tomorrow's numbers could be hard to believe. At a small college in Georgia $100,000 in stimulus funds paid for trucks for students to practice for commercial drivers licenses, another 100,000 went for modular classroom. The school reported to the government that 280 jobs were created. In reality not even close. That's the number of students who benefited. It has nothing to do with jobs. In Coco Florida a childcare center reported 129 jobs created by a stimulus grant. In fact no jobs were created. The money was really used to increase the compensation and benefits of 129 existing employees. Overall it turns out the administrations initial stimulus jobs report contained hundreds of errors as first reported by the Associated Press. Critics say if the kinds of errors found in that earlier report are repeated in Fridays much more extensive job creation survey it won't be worth the paper it's printed on.

>> We have a I think a rough estimate at best and at worst these numbers are next to useless.

>> The White House says the errors have already been corrected that tomorrow's jobs report has been double and triple checked for weeks and that it will give an accurate detailed look at the early success of the stimulus. Republicans in Congress though predict the report will be a world class example of government obfuscation.

>> There's no factual way of determining how many jobs were saved or created.

>> Those republican critics also say they don't understand how some stimulus projects will create any jobs. For example half a million dollars to study social networks like Facebook and $219,000 to study the sex lives of female college freshman. Katie.

>> Chip Reed reporting from the White House tonight. Thanks Chip.

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