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The Department of Homeland Security announced allocations for the Urban Areas Security Initiative--a grant program Congress designed in 2003 to fund terrorism prevention in high-threat, high-risk areas.(The Week)(Brief article)

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The Department of Homeland Security announced allocations for the Urban Areas Security Initiative--a grant program Congress designed in 2003 to fund terrorism prevention in high-threat, high-risk areas. The DHS cut funding for New York and Washington by 40 percent each, while increasing it for Louisville and Omaha by a similar amount. When the program was established, only seven high-risk cities were eligible for these funds. Thanks to political pressure from cities that felt unfairly left ...

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