NPR, December 14, 2011, Wednesday

NPR

December 14, 2011, Wednesday

NPR (full article)

Just How Many Jobs Would The Keystone Pipeline Create?

"That money gets spent and circulated through the economy so ... the 118,000 jobs is the cumulative total of all that during the construction phase," says Perryman.

And that's also measured in person years.

"It's unsubstantiated," says Sean Sweeney, who directs Cornell University's Global Labor Institute. He co-wrote a paper that found the numbers to be exaggerated.