I calculated the impact of these additional jobs last night. The state should get about $4.9 million in additional tax revenue from these jobs alone if these folks have an average income of about $45k. Each of these 2,000 generates about 4 other jobs in retail, service, and manufacturing support locally so thats 10,000 jobs. Typically these jobs won't pay as much as engineer jobs do, but it will help pull the state and the region slightly further out of the recession, and provide some stability to state and local tax entities.