Metro

Thank stimulus for 27k city jobs

The city created or saved 27,218 of the 599,108 jobs the White House reported generating nationally in the final three months of 2009 as a result of federal stimulus funds pumped into the crippled economy.

Most of the $5.85 billion allocated to the Big Apple went to the school system ($2 billion); Medicaid ($1.6 billion); other health and social-service needs ($936 million); and infrastructure ($889 million).

City officials couldn’t immediately provide a breakdown of how many of the jobs were new ones and how many were positions that had been saved.

In November, The Post reported that 3,000 of the 25,526 jobs announced in the previous round of the stimulus were new — and they included 19,518 part-timers in the summer youth employment program counted as 2,882 “full-time equivalents.”

City officials said there were no summer youth jobs in the latest count.

Statewide, 43,061 jobs were produced or retained from an allocation of $13.7 billion.

With US unemployment at a 26-year high of 10 percent, President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress are eager to build support for additional job funding on top of the $787 billion stimulus enacted last year.

California, one of the states hardest hit in the recession, posted 71,015 stimulus-related jobs in 2009’s fourth quarter.

Michigan, which registered a national high unemployment rate of 14.6 percent last month, listed 20,140 such jobs.