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The U.S. Department of Labor has provided $2.5 million in disaster recovery relief funding via a Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant awarded to Texas in response to Hurricane Laura.
According to a the Department of Labor, this grant funding will be used to create disaster-relief jobs to enable operations to clean up debris and the delivery of humanitarian assistance to residents affected by the storm. The project will initially focus efforts in Hardin, Jasper, Jefferson, Newton, Orange, Sabine and Tyler counties. As damage assessments are completed, work may expand to any of the 59 Texas counties included in the associated emergency declaration issued by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in advance of the storm.
On Aug. 27, Hurricane Laura made landfall in southwest Louisiana as a Category 4 storm and continued inland as a tropical storm and inflicting significant damage in neighboring Texas counties.
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