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by continuations 1880 days ago
> $430 billion and add 20,000 new jobs

So it takes $22 million investment to add just 1 job?

Something seems off.

2 comments

It seems off because the jobs just a byproduct of the investment, not the end goal.

i.e. Say I invest $10M to make a precision machine shop and I employing 5 machinists, as a crude example. Here my goal was to make a machine shop capable of producing precision parts, not to spend $2M/job.

It says "and add", not "to add". So I'd say the new jobs are just a side-effect.