Sentences with phrase «block grants for»

The Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act of 1996 (often referred to as welfare reform) created TANF to replace Aid to Families with Dependent Children, thereby creating block grants for state administration, work requirements for eligibility, and lifetime limits on receipt of federal support.

Most of the stimulus money and energy efficiency block grants for buildings are slated for the public building sector.

When charter schools first came on the scene, block grants for an additional $ 400 per student were added for affiliated charters.

NMRC offers both grants for individual researchers and block grants for research institutions engaged in clinical and related research.

About $ 1.2 trillion of the savings from Medicaid and Obamacare would be redirected to block grants for states, Goldwein said.

The revised bill gives states the option to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients and pays states block grants for Medicaid, rather than using a cap system that would be more favorable to New York.

House Republicans are discussing a bill that would potentially provide block grants for the state's Medicaid program.

In addition, states could decide whether to take per capita allotments for their Medicaid programs or block grants for certain populations.

«Rick Scott earmarks federal Hurricane Irma block grant for housing, infrastructure» via Michael Moline of Florida Politics

The secretary's plan includes folding the Child Care Bureau, which administers the federal child - care block grant for low - income families, into the office of family assistance, which oversees the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families welfare...

California school districts are receiving the last of the $ 1.25 billion block grant for implementing Common Core State Standards this week.

When President Trump was on the campaign trail and announced his proposal to provide a block grant for vouchers, he said that the funding distribution would «favor states that have private school choice.»

Those dollars would be used to increase the base funding that all districts receive as well as a remaining supplemental block grant for disadvantaged students.

President - elect Donald Trump has pledged to accelerate the growth of charters nationwide with a proposal to create a $ 20 billion federal block grant for states to offer families more «school choice.»

CLAS supports this bill because it allows local school systems to use any unappropriated revenue in this fund as a block grant for school security and all other expenditures already identified in the law.

In doing this, there are areas where the connections to FRS are clear, specifically, the parts of both consolidated plan templates that cover Title IV A, which is reimagined under ESSA as a block grant for student support and academic enrichment with a portion of the funds available to support digital infrastructure and integration of technology in the classroom.

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Ryan also said Republicans were working on changes that would allow federal block grants to states for Medicaid and permit states to impose a work requirement for able - bodied Medicaid recipients.

Some universities are hailing possible new flexibilities, but Dr Yovich says one issue for Murdoch concerns previous block grants now becoming allocations for specific programs, some calculated on the number of students in each.

For instance, the federal government's Community Development Block Grants, which are dispensed by local communities for economic growth, require that contractors hired by the borrower pay the prevailing wage rate for that locatiFor instance, the federal government's Community Development Block Grants, which are dispensed by local communities for economic growth, require that contractors hired by the borrower pay the prevailing wage rate for that locatifor economic growth, require that contractors hired by the borrower pay the prevailing wage rate for that locatifor that location.

For example, changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program include converting the program into a block grant and requiring states to finance 25 percent of the total costs, eliminating the ability for states to waive work requirements, and ending categorical eligibility, among other changFor example, changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program include converting the program into a block grant and requiring states to finance 25 percent of the total costs, eliminating the ability for states to waive work requirements, and ending categorical eligibility, among other changfor states to waive work requirements, and ending categorical eligibility, among other changes.

In a March speech, the likely GOP nominee said he would reduce barriers to the interstate sale of health insurance, institute a full tax deduction for insurance premium payments for individuals, make Health Saving Accounts inheritable, require price transparency, block - grant Medicaid to the states, and allow for more overseas drug providers through lowered regulatory barriers.

In Cleveland, two shelters for battered women have been staffed by Catholic nuns and professional social workers; support has come from churches, private donations, block grants and a special surcharge on Ohio marriage licenses.

Many practical proposals were presented, including requests for more community development block - grant funds, the use of empty federal buildings, the release of surplus food from federal depositories and relaxation of SSI restrictions.

In this particular instance it is not very difficult to imagine scenarios in the not - too - distant future in which there might occur resurgences of socialist policies and ideals: the failure of neo-capitalist regimes in developing societies and / or the formerly Communist countries in Europe to achieve economic take - off; the insight granted to sundry dictators and despots that, while socialism invariably immiserates the masses, it is a very good recipe for enriching those who claim to hold power as the vanguard of the masses; the «creeping socialism» (still an aptly descriptive term) brought on by massive government intervention in the economy in the name of some societal good, e.g., there could be an environmentalist road to socialism, or a feminist one, or one constructed (perhaps inadvertently) with some other building blocks of politically managed regulations and entitlements; or, last but not least, the actual restoration of socialism, by coup or by voting, in a number of countries, beginning with Russia.

The Michigan Strategic Fund approved $ 12.5 m as part of Community Development Block Grant funds for the development of Coldwater.

On page 1,967 of the 2,232 - page bill — immediately following a section about the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act and the National Criminal History Background Check and Criminal History Review Program — there is an addendum to a 1939 labor law that specifically carves out an exemption for minor league baseball.

I was more concerned with playing ramsay wide again, Which Wenger continues to do, i was concern with Ozils attitude in the game it was poor a lot of cussing and fussing when he lost the ball and complaining to referee, i was concern about our defense line, taking our goalkeeper for granted, not knowing to step forward to block shots and marking individuals properly.

Breastfeeding is now included in the National Performance Measures of Title V Maternal and Child Health Block Grant partly because of the Roundtable's work.My «business» for the past 16 years has been to build the very foundation of «breastfeeding - related businesses:» starting the LC profession; establishing the credential; forming the professional association; and creating / changing health policy.

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

The Park District is using a $ 37,200 Community Development Block Grant to improve accessibility for handicapped park patrons.

To fund the project, the park district has received approval from the Rolling Meadows City Council to include their $ 450,000 grant request with the city's application for Cook County Community Development Block Grants.

The House bill also proposed a a three - state block grant pilot for school meals, an idea which was seen by some as a precursor to dismantling the entire National School Lunch Program.

Bensenville — Village officials are seeking a community development block grant to improve three areas in the northern part of the village that also could be used for recreation by the Park District.

The board agreed to pursue a $ 3,369 community development block grant that would pay for the continued hiring of four supervisors at parks in the Janes Avenue neighborhood.

DHR is the lead state agency for the federal child care subsidy funds, while Bright From the Start manages the state pre-kindergarten program, the federal child nutrition program, all child care center licensing and registering of family child care homes, and the quality and infant — toddler set - asides of the state's portion of the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant.

Earlier this month, U.S. Rep. Rosa L. DeLauro, D - 3rd District, introduced the Diaper Investment and Aid to Promote Economic Recovery Act (DIAPER) Act, a bill that would amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to allow funding for diapers and diaper supplies.

Former SNA President Dorothy Caldwell, who has been on the front lines of child nutrition for 37 years, said she is worried SNA leadership has been «naive» in its approach, allowing the National School Lunch Program to be unnecessarily politicized as it was during Newt Gingrich's effort to block the grant program during the Clinton administration, when she was a USDA official.

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SNA said it supports the Senate agreement on school nutrition standards, and opposes the House bill, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, which would restrict school eligibility for CEP and institute a block grant pilot that would cut funds for school meal programs.

All around us are pockets - vast stretches, too - of deprivation so severe that you can travel blocks, even miles, through Chicago and some suburbs without seeing things that so many of us take for granted: grocery stores, basketball hoops with nets, Starbucks, wide lawns and houses whose windows are not boarded over or shattered.

The City of Chicago is planning for more than 70,000 people to mob an election - night rally in Grant Park for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, an event that will involve police and firefighters working overtime, blocked streets and at least $ 2 million in extra costs.

The committee also finalized its proposal to replace the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children (WIC) with a Family Nutrition Block Grant, as well as its proposed Child Care Block Grant, which would consolidate nine different federal child - care programs.

So yesterday the SNA went to Capitol Hill for a «national day of action» to protest the block grant proposal, and it was joined by a number of prominent congressional Democrats, the Food Research & Action Center, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities and other advocacy groups.

The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9801 et seq.) is amended --(1) in section 658E (c)(3)(C) by adding at the end the following: «Provision of diapers for use by eligible children within the State who receive or are offered child care services for which financial assistance is provided under this Act is a direct service and shall not be included in administrative costs.»

(Conservatives unveiled their own proposal yesterday, calling for all the funds currently allocated under the Affordable Care Act to be distributed to the states via block grants).

The IDC wants to increase funding for the Child Care Block Grant by $ 100 million, which would create an additional 13,000 slots in child care centers.

In the past the GOP talk was block grants to the states for subsidies and health savings accounts.

What's more, New York also stands to lose a big chunk of its federal Medicaid funding if Congress ever manages to get a deal on repeal and replacement of Obamacare, with the most recent proposal — Cassidy - Graham — calling for block granting those funds, in a move that would hurt New York more than any other state, Cuomo said.