Posted on 08/16/2009 8:51:43 AM PDT by Nachum
CORPUS CHRISTI — Corpus Christi’s cut of federal stimulus dollars will improve city roads, pay the rent for people living in housing projects, train math and science teachers and send more people to trade schools and college on government scholarships.
Those projects, along with dozens of others, are part of about $200 million of federal stimulus projects coming to the area.
The money should create close to 2,000 jobs, based on White House formulas.
Those job creation numbers likely are “severely inflated,” said Jason Alaniz, the city’s intergovernmental relations project manager in charge of stimulus projects.
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