By Mark Memmott

An Associated Press report that "President Barack Obama's economic recovery plan overstates by thousands the number of jobs created or saved through the stimulus program" has generated a sharp response from the White House.

The AP story, White House adviser Ed DeSeve says in a statement:

Draws misleading conclusions from a handful of examples. It looks at only a small portion of the data -- an initial upload of data representing just two percent of Recovery Act spending -- that was made publicly available before a full review of its accuracy could be done. Virtually all of the errors found by the AP had already been found by our review, and were already corrected in an update to be loaded onto Recovery.gov this week.
Tomorrow, more than 100,000 recipient reports will be posted on Recovery.gov. Unlike the small number of reports reviewed by AP, these reports have been reviewed for weeks, errors have been spotted and corrected, and additional layers of review by state and local governments have further improved the data quality. As a result, whatever problems the early and partial data had, the full data to be posted on Friday will provide the American people with an accurate, detailed look at the early success of the Recovery Act.

Tune in tomorrow to see what the White House posts.

categories: Economy

8:25 - October 29, 2009

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