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United Way offers relief for laid-off aircraft workers

KSNW-TV
updated 1:45 p.m. MT, Fri., Feb. 27, 2009
WICHITA, Kansas - Around 800 Cessna employees learned Thursday they would be among the 4,000 Wichita workers at the plant hitting the unemployment lines. Over 8,000 aviation workers have been laid off in the last few months, but some help is on the way.

As more and more workers get lay off notices, compliments of the recent nose dive in the aircraft industry, a local charity is turning to the public to help them. The United Way says it's starting a fund for laid-off workers to help them pay their bills and make ends meet until they can find new jobs.

"We're asking the community to come forward and offer us an extra special boost as we can help the other members of the community who've lost their jobs," said Patrick Hanrahan of the United Way of the Plains.

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