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Mayor raises alarm about World Relief funding pause and local impacts
Summary
Mayor Murphy told the council federal stop-work orders on refugee resettlement services could leave dozens in Moline without rent or case management, and city and intergovernmental partners are discussing contingency support.
Mayor Murphy told the council that a federal pause in a specific refugee resettlement program has not been fully restored and could immediately affect recently arrived households in the Quad Cities, including about 64 people in Moline.
“The facts are that there are 209 people who have been resettled in the Quad Cities since October,” Mayor Murphy said, and added that while the broader federal funding freeze had been rescinded, “that program has not. The stop work on that.” She told the…
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