From SJ Mercury:
Backing off claims that the bullet train would create more than 1 million jobs, California’s high-speed rail leaders acknowledged Thursday that their “short-handed” definition used to describe jobs has been “imprecise and potentially confusing.”
In a statement responding to an investigation by this newspaper, the California High-Speed Rail Authority clarified that the 1 million jobs figure does not refer to the number of workers. Instead, as the newspaper reported, it refers to an economic term known as “job-years” in which, for example, one person working 10 years equals 10 job-years.
While the lower-than-advertised job figures would result in about 20,000 construction workers during a typical year, the project’s die-hard supporters such as Gov. Jerry Brown said the differences didn’t change their fervor to start building.
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