New York to Hire 5,000 Temp Workers for Sandy Cleanup

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More than 5,000 New Yorkers will be hired for temporary jobs cleaning up after Hurricane Sandy, officials said Sunday. The positions will pay about $15 per hour and generally last about six months. Nearly $27 million in federal Labor Department money will finance the cleanup and rebuilding positions. Separately, the state and FEMA are working to put New Yorkers into more than 700 temporary FEMA jobs, some as administrative assistants and community relations workers. Gov. Andrew Cuomo called it "a chance to provide young and unemployed New Yorkers with job opportunities cleaning up their communities." Job-seekers can apply at a FEMA disaster recovery center, call the state Labor Department at 888-469-7365 or visit http://labor.ny.gov/sandyjobs. (NBC)

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