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Durham council hears pleas from global health workers, moves to revise USAID stop‑work resolution
Summary
Councilmembers and dozens of local global‑health professionals discussed a resolution urging lifting a federal stop‑work order on USAID programs. Residents and staff asked for edits clarifying recipients and addressee lists; council directed staff to prepare a Durham resolution and to track parallel actions by nearby municipalities.
Dozens of Durham residents who work on international development told the City Council on March 13 that recent federal moves halting some USAID foreign‑assistance work have already cost local jobs and threatened university and nonprofit contracts tied to the Triangle economy.
Brianna Clark Schwalm, executive director of the North Carolina Global Health Alliance, told the council the state receives some $1 billion per year in USAID‑related funding and said she had monitored hundreds of local job losses. “We estimate about 2,000 people might possibly lose their jobs from this one decision,” she said; Rachel Cooper, a local global‑health professional who said she lost her job after the stop‑work order, described immediate household and community effects.
Mayor Williams introduced a draft joint resolution “calling for the immediate lifting of the…
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