Follow this link to the article by Elaine Thompson of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette staff.

The article is loaded with facts and figures about the jobs that have been created or saved in Massachusetts.  There is even detail by city and town in the area surrounding Worcester.

Our recently elected Senator Scott Brown was campaigning on the fact that the stimulus package did not create a single job.  This article proves just how absurd that claim was.

Imagine what might have happened if this article had been published before the election.  From my reading of letters to the editor and the newspaper’s on-line site, it looks like the majority of the voters believed Brown’s claim.

I’d like to believe that my constant haranguing of the paper on their web-site prompted them to rethink the service that they were providing to the community.  They even quoted one of the local economic experts that I have repeatedly suggested.  (They had already published an article by him in the past, so it was not like I was introducing them to someone they did not know.)

Whatever prompted the newspaper to commission this work and to publish it, they deserve heaps of praise for doing so.