I 
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. MCGOV-
ERN, 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 jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To provide grants to cities with high unemployment rates 
to provide job training, public works, and economic devel-
opment programs, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Jobs for Urban Sus-
tainability in America Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. GRANTS TO CITIES WITH HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT. 
(a) DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE GRANTS FOR PUB-
LIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.—The Sec-
retary of Commerce shall use the funds made available 
to the Secretary under section 3(a)(2) to make additional 
grants— 
(1) to cities with high unemployment, under 
sections 201, 203, 207, and 209 of the Public Works 
and Economic Development Act of 1965; and 
(2) under the Trade Adjustment Assistance for 
Firms Program under chapters 3 and 5 of title II 
of the Trade Act of 1974. 
(b) DEPARTMENT
OF LABOR GRANTS
FOR JOB 
TRAINING PROGRAMS.—The Secretary of Labor shall use 
the funds made available to the Secretary under section 
3(a)(1) to carry out adult and dislocated worker employ-
ment and training activities under chapter V of subtitle 
B of title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 
U.S.C. 2861 et seq.) to benefit cities with high unemploy-
ment. 
(c) CITY WITH HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT DEFINED.— 
For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘city with high un-
employment’’ means a city that— 
(1) has a population of at least 600,000 people; 
and 
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(2) has, for each month beginning with January 
2009, and ending on the date of the enactment of 
this Act, an unemployment rate of 10 percent or 
more. 
SEC. 3. FUNDING. 
(a) FUNDING FROM THE TARP.—Of funds made 
available to the Secretary of the Treasury under title I 
of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 (12 
U.S.C. 5211 et seq.) that remain unobligated, the Sec-
retary of the Treasury shall— 
(1) make $5,000,000,000 available to the Sec-
retary of Labor to carry out section 2(a); and 
(2) make $5,000,000,000 available to the Sec-
retary of Commerce to carry out section 2(b). 
(b) AUTHORIZATION.—The amounts described under 
subsection (a) shall be deemed to be for actions authorized 
under title I of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act 
of 2008. 
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