Seems like we're sending you to
cn2 quite a bit today. This time it's about our governor's claims on jobs vs the reality of the employment situation in the state. Now, if you follow the news, then you might hear that every time another business opens its doors and talks about hiring new employees, Steve Beshear claims them as jobs in the bucket. But the reality, as pointed out by
Ryan Alessi's article, is that off all the jobs that the governor has mentioned in press releases and statements over the past three years, only about a third come into existence.
From the article:
"Pure Politics contacted the more than 120 companies whose pledges to create jobs were trumped in state press releases between March 2008 and June 2, 2011.
Of those, 87 companies confirmed the number of the positions that had been filled by this summer. Combined, the 87 firms had promised to hire 11,786 Kentuckians. So far, they had collectively hired 3,691.
That’s a rate of 31.3 percent."
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