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By Meg Kinnard
Associated Press
POSTED: 02:24 p.m. EDT, Jun 18, 2009
BARNWELL, S.C.: Thousands of people from some of South Carolina's most depressed counties are flocking to information sessions for new jobs cleaning up an old nuclear weapons complex.
Some of the 2,000 people at a job fair in Barnwell this week say they don't mind that the job is cleaning up nuclear waste at the Savannah River Site. They say the economy is so bad that just about any job sounds good.
Officials are looking to fill thousands of positions available thanks to $1.6 billion in federal stimulus funds. South Carolina's unemployment rate was 11.5 percent in April, the third-highest in the nation.
Funding for the jobs runs out in 2011. Some critics say the temporary fix could ultimately make South Carolina's bad unemployment picture worse.
BARNWELL, S.C.: Thousands of people from some of South Carolina's most depressed counties are flocking to information sessions for new jobs cleaning up an old nuclear weapons complex.
Some of the 2,000 people at a job fair in Barnwell this week say they don't mind that the job is cleaning up nuclear waste at the Savannah River Site. They say the economy is so bad that just about any job sounds good.
Officials are looking to fill thousands of positions available thanks to $1.6 billion in federal stimulus funds. South Carolina's unemployment rate was 11.5 percent in April, the third-highest in the nation.
Funding for the jobs runs out in 2011. Some critics say the temporary fix could ultimately make South Carolina's bad unemployment picture worse.
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