The U.S. Department of Labor is awarding $2.5 million to Hawaii to continue employment and training services and support disaster-relief jobs for people in communities affected by the wildfires that swept across the island of Maui on Aug. 8, 2023.
The department’s Employment and Training Administration responded to the fires initially by announcing the award of Disaster Recovery Grant funding of up to $21 million, with an initial award of $10.5 million, to assist with cleanup and recovery activities. With this incremental funding, the total awarded for the project is $13 million.
This Disaster Recovery National Dislocated Worker Grant enables the Hawaii Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to provide people with temporary jobs focused on cleaning up debris and repairing damage caused by the fires, as well as providing employment and training services to wildfire survivors.
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