| Article: | The state of the Columbia Basin New Job Growth in Grant County, Washington 2007 was an amazing year for Grant County, with more than a dozen manufacturing and high-tech companies busy constructing new or expanded facilities representing more than $1.8 billion of new capital investment. With this investment comes about 2,050 new jobs. Approximately 1,000 of those jobs are with businesses building new or expanded facilities and the other 1,050 jobs are "spin off" jobs elsewhere in the economy. The "spin off" jobs estimate comes from Economic Modeling Specialists Inc. |