States to tally jobs stimulus aided

States will reveal later this month how many jobs were created or saved during the first months of President Barack Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan.

From 11 jobs repaving a road in Caldwell, Texas, to a job helping run Utah food banks, to two forensic scientist positions in North Dakota, states were required to say exactly what has become of the government aid.

In preliminary information obtained by The Associated Press from a handful of states, teachers benefited most in early spending. That’s because the stimulus sent billions of dollars to help stabilize state budgets, sparing what officials said were tens of thousands of teacher layoffs.

In California, the stimulus was credited with saving or creating 62,000 ...