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By DAVE MICHAELS / The Dallas Morning News dmichaels@dallasnews.com |

WASHINGTON - Reports that Texas has created or saved 19,752 jobs so far with stimulus funding appear to overstate the impact of the program, according to interviews and an analysis of government data.

More than one-quarter of those jobs, or about 5,100, were summer positions for people 24 and younger. In Dallas, "a couple of handfuls, maybe 25," found permanent jobs as a result of the experience, according to Laurie Bouillion Larrea, president of Workforce Solutions Greater Dallas, which placed participants in the program.

In other cases, federal agencies raised questions about job-creation estimates reported by area recipients of stimulus funds. One tiny Navarro County town's housing authority reported creating 450 jobs with a $26,174 grant, a claim that was obviously wrong but not fixed in time for last week's reports.

The city of Corpus Christi said the U.

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