12 Mar, 2008
Safer Communities, Improved Education and Economic Investment Highlight Fiscal Year 2009 Indian Affairs Budget
Posted by: RSS In: Doi.gov
The fiscal year 2009 budget requests $2.2 billion for Indian Affairs, which includes Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) programs. The budget request includes increased funding for the Interior Departments Safe Indian Communities and Improving Indian Education initiatives as well as for the Indian Guaranteed Loan and Job Placement programs to meet tribal and individual Indian business financing needs and to help alleviate high unemployment rates in Indian Country.
