Add It Up: Georgia gets stimulated
Nearly 24,000 jobs created or retained thanks to the stimulus package.
Number of Georgia jobs created or retained by the national stimulus package: 23,879
Estimated number of jobs created or retained nationally by stimulus money: 1 million
Current Georgia unemployment rate: 10.2 percent
Georgia unemployment rate at the end of 2008: 7.5 percent
Current national unemployment rate: 9.8 percent
Amount of money allocated to 18 Georgia agencies by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: $3.2 billion
Amount of that allocated money spent by those agencies so far: $702 million
Amount of money spent per job created or retained across the state: $29,380
Georgia’s median income for an individual: $40,760
Sources: AJC.com, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau