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Tampa gets federal grant for job training

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Tags: CDC, Job Opportunities for Low-Income Individuals

This afternoon in East Tampa, Congresswoman Kathy Castor, Mayor Pam Iorio and other officials announced a new program aimed at increasing skills and opportunities for low-income families.

The program comes in the way of a $500,000 federal grant that will go toward providing new jobs through a public private partnership between the Corporative to Develop Communities (CDC) of Tampa, Abe Brown Ministries and Able Body Training U.

Speaking at the CDC headquarters in East Tampa, Castor rec...