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$11M Labor Grant Creates 600 New Disaster Recovery Jobs

Home Depot employees Thanh Nguyen hands a case of bottled water to Brandon Powell both of Cedar Rapids as a disaster response crew composed of workers from the Waterloo and Cedar Rapids Home Depots provide assistance to the relief efffort Tuesday, May 27, 2008, in Aplington. A tornado tore through the city Sunday. The water will go to people in New Hartford which also was affected by the severe weather. (Jim Slosiarek/The Gazette)

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$11M Labor Grant Creates 600 New Disaster Recovery Jobs

By Daren Sukhram

Story Created: Jul 1, 2009 at 2:35 PM CDT

Story Updated: Jul 1, 2009 at 2:35 PM CDT

WASHINGTON - Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) Wednesday praised the Department of Labor for granting Iowa Workforce Development $11,646,300 to create an additional 641 temporary jobs for eligible dislocated workers to continue the clean-up and recovery efforts at already-established worksites in the aftermath of severe storms, tornadoes, and flooding in 2008. The funds will also be used to address additional damage discovered during prior clean-up and recovery work.

“This funding will help deliver what Iowa needs most: flood recovery and jobs,” Senator Harkin said Wednesday. “These funds will help us rebuild our state and our economy at the same time.”

The funding is a supplemental National Emergency Grant (NEG). On June 18, 2008, a NEG was approved for up to $17,127,000 to create approximately 600 temporary jobs for this clean-up and recovery project, with $6,000,000 released initially. The remaining $11,127,000 under the initial award was provided to the State on June 27, 2008. With this supplemental award, the total funding to date for this NEG is $28,773,300.

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