New Report Announces Methods for Measuring ARRA Job Creation Progress
The Council on Economic Advisers (CEA) recently released a report, “Estimates of Job Creation from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009,” which outlines the methodology that will be used to measure the impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) on job creation.
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was designed to save and create jobs, as well as to cushion the economic downturn and make crucial public investments. At the time of passage, the Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) made estimates of the employment effects of the Act for the economy as a whole. As the money is being distributed by the various agencies, there is interest in estimates of the likely jobs effects of the individual pieces. Of course, as projects swing into action, the government will gather actual data on reported job creation. This report describes the estimating procedures used so far; specifies procedures to be used by recipients for estimating job creation going forward; discusses reporting requirements for job creation; and describes the procedures the CEA will use to evaluate the job creation and retention benefits of the ARRA going forward.
Brenda Thompson posted: 18 Jun at 6:49 pm
I read the whole thing. It is highly speculative, has many qualifiers about the abundance of unknowns and reporting variances. Why not set up more structured reporting requirements to limit the variability in data acquired? And why is it they couldn’t get a decent copy editor to read it before publication? For spending $92,000 to create a single “job-year” we should be able to produce documents without missing words or typos.