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We chose two more states from you so we could show you here. we've got iowa, they got $686 million and south dakota $120 -- closer to $121 million. so, fred, this is the kind of thing we're doing here at the stimulus desk. we're following all of these individual projects for you, breaking them down as we go. >> oh, thank you so much. meantime, there is an announcement, right, from the government on a correction about jobs. >> reporter: big day, yeah. when it comes to the stimulus, the biggest thing you hear people fight about in washington, how many jobs did it create, right? well, the way it ...

Asked them about this? >> yes the firm has done late of work no one is saying they are unqualifying. he was terse on the phone he steered all questions to usaid said he didn't want to speak for the government. i said i'm asking you to speak for your country, did you know this contract had been awarded on a no-bid faces? he said after the fact, yes. before, no. >> greta: it didn't bother him. unbeliever able. -- unbelievable. >> where is the stimulus money going? the white house says almost 600,000 jobs were created by the stimulus in the last three months of 2009. where did those numbers come ...

Asked them about this? >> yes the firm has done late of work no one is saying they are unqualifying. he was terse on the phone he steered all questions to usaid said he didn't want to speak for the government. i said i'm asking you to speak for your country, did you know this contract had been awarded on a no-bid faces? he said after the fact, yes. before, no. >> greta: it didn't bother him. unbeliever able. -- unbelievable. >> where is the stimulus money going? the white house says almost 600,000 jobs were created by the stimulus in the last three months of 2009. where did those numbers come ...

On everything. we have been following the stimulus money to see how the tax dollars are being spent. today we are crunching the numbers on the latest claim from the white house. 600,000 jobs were created by stimulus dollars just in the final three months of 2009. try to make this down for us. >> we will be here all week. this is the figure that recovery.gov is what the white house is pointing. 599,108 jobs were funded by the stimulus. that's the figure for the fourth quarter of 2009. i want to break down for you what that means in terms of how the jobs came about. this is it right here.

Republicans say, not so fast, though. our josh levs is here to break down the numbers for us. hey, josh. >> we're all excited for candy. >> yeah. she is so deserves of it. >> we're so happy for that. these are big numbers that the white house is tossing out there today. i want to do my best to reality check it for you, tell you what these numbers mean. first of all, this is the big figure right here. basically all these agencies out there that received stimulus funding had to report how many jobs were funded by the stimulus in the last quarter of last year. it's 600,000. 599,108 jobs were fund...