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$4.4M grant provided for post-DHL closure job training

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Staff Report Updated 4:07 PM Thursday, November 19, 2009

WASHINGTON — The federal government is providing an additional $4.4 million to southwest Ohio for jobs and skills training for workers who lost jobs when express shipper DHL closed its U.S. freight hub at Wilmington Air Park in Clinton County.

It is the second such national emergency grant approved to help the laid-off workers from what had been the Wilmington area’s largest employer.

“This is about ensuring a continued federal investment in southwest Ohio,” U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, said Thursday, Nov. 19. “DHL’s decision to close its Wilmington facility was an economic tragedy. We need to continue to respond to this tragedy with the same level of urgency and attention that we would apply to a natural disaster or homeland security threat.”

The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services filed an initial grant application last year, and a $3.87 million federal grant was awarded in November 2008. The Labor Department provides the grants to expand job training capacity in response to mass layoffs or other causes of major job losses.

The area covered by the grant includes the counties of Adams, Brown, Butler, Clermont, Clinton, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Highland, Montgomery, Pickaway, Pike, Ross, Scioto, and Warren.

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