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111TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 4740 

To provide grants to cities with high unemployment rates to provide job 

training, public works, and economic development programs, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 3, 2010 

Mr. COHEN (for himself, Mr. RUSH, Mr. HASTINGS of Florida, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. FUDGE, Mr. CLAY, and Mr. BRADY of 

Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on 

Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Education and 

Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 

each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To provide grants to cities with high unemployment rates 

to provide job training, public works, and economic development programs, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Jobs for Urban Sus5 tainability in America Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. GRANTS TO CITIES WITH HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT. 

2 (a) DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE GRANTS FOR PUB3 LIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.—The Sec4 retary of Commerce shall use the funds made available 

5 to the Secretary under section 3(a)(2) to make additional 

6 grants— 

7 (1) to cities with high unemployment, under 

8 sections 201, 203, 207, and 209 of the Public Works 

9 and Economic Development Act of 1965; and 

10 (2) under the Trade Adjustment Assistance for 

11 Firms Program under chapters 3 and 5 of title II 

12 of the Trade Act of 1974. 

13 (b) DEPARTMENT OF LABOR GRANTS FOR JOB

14 TRAINING PROGRAMS.—The Secretary of Labor shall use 

15 the funds made available to the Secretary under section 

16 3(a)(1) to carry out adult and dislocated worker employ17 ment and training activities under chapter V of subtitle 

18 B of title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 

19 U.S.C. 2861 et seq.) to benefit cities with high unemploy20 ment. 

21 (c) CITY WITH HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT DEFINED.— 

22 For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘city with high un23 employment’’ means a city that— 

24 (1) has a population of at least 600,000 people; 

25 and 


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1 (2) has, for each month beginning with January 

2 2009, and ending on the date of the enactment of 

3 this Act, an unemployment rate of 10 percent or 

4 more. 

5 SEC. 3. FUNDING. 

6 (a) FUNDING FROM THE TARP.—Of funds made 

7 available to the Secretary of the Treasury under title I 

8 of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (12 

9 U.S.C. 5211 et seq.) that remain unobligated, the Sec10 retary of the Treasury shall— 

11 (1) make $5,000,000,000 available to the Sec12 retary of Labor to carry out section 2(a); and 

13 (2) make $5,000,000,000 available to the Sec14 retary of Commerce to carry out section 2(b). 

15 (b) AUTHORIZATION.—The amounts described under 

16 subsection (a) shall be deemed to be for actions authorized 

17 under title I of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 

18 of 2008. 

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