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Is the stimulus package really saving jobs in Central Florida?

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Mike Synan
@ November 4, 2009 5:38 AM
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The White House is making claims, and WDBO is investigating.

At the White House's website on the stimulus package, it claims 129 jobs were saved in Cocoa Beach. Was that what really happened, or did employees just get raises? Those 129 jobs are at the Brevard Child Care Association, so I asked the Executive Director there, and got some hemming and hawing.

"No, uh, not, well saved/maintained. Maybe it's a matter of semantics."

Every employee got a 4 percent raise with the 100 grand in money Barbara Moore got.

"It's been over 4 year since the employees got any kind of cost of living, you know, to maintain their expenses."

Moore claims her employees would have left for other jobs had she not given them raises, and therefore the White House is not fudging the numbers. The Brevard Child Care Association is a non profit that helps parents with early education.



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