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Ahmad and Samah waited six years to be resettled in the United States after civil war tore apart their native Syria and left Ahmad paralyzed. They landed in Bellevue with their two girls three days before President Trump rescinded the program intended to help refugees on the path to self-sufficiency. 

Meanwhile, the shakeup in federal policy isn’t alarming regional labor leaders, whose roles are often baked into local government. And after emerging from the steel-making days as a hub for education and health care, Pittsburgh could now play a key role in green energy production — if enough people are there to do the work.

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The Syrian family’s father is severely injured, the mother pregnant, the daughters deprived of school for years. Now they hang on to shelter near Pittsburgh as the agency they rely on tries to chart a course amid a federal funding stoppage.
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