USA TODAY was among those that found examples of errors in that data, such as a Texas housing authority mistakenly reporting 450 jobs created by a $26,000 roofing project that actually employed six people.
Republicans said the glitches showed that the White House was wrong to tout the job figures. The panel's top Republican,
Darrell Issa of California, called the jobs number "propaganda ... designed to serve a political agenda." Rep.
Dan Burton, R-Ind., said, "I feel like I'm listening to a baloney factory."
The administration plans to offer "streamlined guidance" to recipients before the next reporting deadline in January to clarify how they should calculate and report their jobs numbers, Danny Werfel of the White House budget office wrote to Dodaro in response to the GAO findings.
Jobs reports 'riddled with inaccuracies' - USATODAY.com