What If the Numbers 'Add Up' But Don't Make Sense?

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It sure looked like good news, so we shared with you in SCUP Email News" that the California State University system had saved 26,000 jobs with federal stimulus funds. Now it seems that it was too good to be true, but no one noticed. Federal reporting guidelines were followed, but they had not been developed in a way that made sense of CSU's employment circumstances: "California State University officials may have followed federal guidelines in reporting that stimulus money saved an inordinate number of campus jobs, but someone in the university system should have objected to reporting the numbers because 'they don't make sense.'" More, from the Sacramento Bee.