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Article: THE WHITE HOUSE: Vice President Gore announces 20 new Empowerment Zones.
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- January 14, 1999
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M2 PRESSWIRE-14 January 1999-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Vice President -- Vice President Gore announces 20 new Empowerment Zones (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD
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* Zones now eligible to receive billions for long term revitalization and job creation
WASHINGTON, DC -- Vice President Gore today named 20 economically distressed communities as new Empowerment Zones, making them eligible to share in $3.8 billion in proposed federal grants and tax-exempt bonding authority to finance sweeping revitalization and job creation programs over the next 10 years.
If Congress approves full funding for the Empowerment Zones, the ...