Letters

Shifting

The job creation numbers being touted by the Hawkins development, as reported in the Daily News and Whitman County Gazette, just don’t hold water. The Berkeley Research Group, a California-based consulting firm hired by Boise’s Hawkins Companies to do a study of the project, estimated that approximately 1,000 new jobs would be created on the Palouse. Berkeley further estimates between $24.7 and $28.2 million in full-time worker wages. These wages, plus millions more in benefits, will fill the pockets of employees and, by extension, the coffers of the businesses they frequent.

But whic...