Yesterday, the White House released an updated state by state estimate of the impact of the ARRA on jobs. You can read the full text here, but the upshot is that Washington should see about 75,000 jobs generated within the scope of the Act, 8500 of them in Congressional District 7 (which includes Seattle, in case you had forgotten). I don’t know precisely how many people in the district have been laid off in the past 12 months, but it seems like more than that. In any case, no one knows how this will work out, but if the Act does what it was designed to do, 8500 workers re-employed is a durn sight better than more jobs lost.

You can read the complete release here.

You can also read Director Orzag’s (OMB) memo to departments regarding implementation and reporting of teh ARRA here. A quick warning: the memo is 62 pages long, and unlike the committee draft of the ARRA, it’s not triple spaced with two-inch margins, and 16-point font.