SAN JOSE, Calif.—California’s high-speed rail officials backed off Friday on claims that the proposed construction of a bullet train between San Francisco and Los Angeles would create more than a million jobs.

The California High-Speed Rail Authority acknowledged that its definition of jobs has been “imprecise and potentially confusing,” the San Jose Mercury News (http://bit.ly/t3z4qe) reported.

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