While in Ohio today, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis announced a $2,932,835 National Emergency Grant supplemental award to provide services to an additional 729 workers affected by layoffs at Wilmington Air Park in Wilmington, Ohio. Following an initial grant in November 2008 and one other previous award of supplemental funding with dislocated workers added as more layoffs occurred, a total of approximately 2,360 individuals now will be served.

"President Obama and I are committed to helping Ohio's families get back on their feet and to getting all Americans back to work," said Secretary Solis. "This supplemental funding expands greatly needed re-employment assistance for workers in the Buckeye State. It also ensures that those already benefitting from employment and training services can continue this preparation for new, family-supporting jobs."

The supplemental funding announced today is being awarded to the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services.