After the attacks on September 11th, the Minnesota Department of Trade amd Economic Development applied for special federal funds to help airline workers who lost their jobs as a result of the tragedy. The U-S Department of Labor responded with an eight (M)million dollar grant. But since that money became available, only two-thousand dislocated airline workers have applied for the money, about one-fifth of what the department originally anticipated. Last week, the state received permission to re-direct the money to dislocated Fingerhut workers. Trade and Economic Development Commissioner Rebecca Yanisch says her original estimates were based on information available from the airlines at that time: