Compounding the problem, some members of Congress propose
cutting federal family planning dollars, which would disproportionately affect Planned Parenthood and our patients, depriving them of access to basic health services, including STD testing and treatment, birth control, and cancer screenings.
Not exact matches
The
federal government will begin
cutting the age pension in three years, reduce disability and other welfare payments immediately, and slash back
family tax payments, while holding out the prospect of income tax
cuts within five years, Tony Abbott has pledged.
Unless, of course, you are talking about the
families of the wealthy and privileged who have received about 70 per cent of
federal personal tax
cuts over the past 10 years.
CNN: Hate crimes trial against Amish begins
Federal prosecutors are expected to argue that an Amish sect leader, accused of orchestrating beard -
cutting attacks against fellow Amish men, was operating a cult out of his
family compound in rural Ohio.
NETWORK, a group founded by 47 Catholic sisters that speaks out on social justice issues in particular, will be hitting states like Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Virginia in order to reveal «how
federal budget
cuts proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan, (R - WI), and passed by the House of Representatives will hurt struggling
families in these states,» a release by the group reads.
Affordable housing: New York would take a $ 229.9 million
cut in
federal aid for Housing Choice vouchers, affecting 13,620 low - income
families who find housing in the private market.
«It is shocking that Grinch Andrew Cuomo is advocating for a shutdown of the
federal government because he didn't get his way on denying New York's working
families a tax
cut of $ 100 or more in their monthly paychecks,» Collins said in a statement.
To address
federal SNAP
cuts, Cuomo plans to use heating funds to shore up food assistance programs for some 300,000
families.
He pledged the city will ensure women get the healthcare and
family planning assistance if there are
cuts to
federal funding for Planned Parenthood, and will provide any undocumented New Yorkers with lawyers to protect them and their
families if the
federal government attempts to round them up and remove them.
Also at noon, LG Kathy Hochul highlights the impact of
federal funding
cuts on new York
families, Health Alliance Hospital, Mary's Avenue Campus, 105 Mary's Ave., Kingston.
At 3 p.m., Hochul highlights the impact of
federal funding
cuts on NY
families, Elsie Owens Community Health Center, 82 Middle Country Rd., Coram.
Also at 10 a.m., LG Kathy Hochul highlights the impact of
federal funding
cuts on NY
families, John E. Pound Early Childhood Center, 51 High St., Lockport.
The Cortland County Legislature Thursday night voted on a symbolic resolution to send to Washington to protest threatened
cuts to
federal Title X
family planning funding for the Jacobus Center.
Needed: a strategy to promote resilience Compiling a list of suggestions, they push
federal agencies to «make resilience a core aspect of all
federal infrastructure and disaster - recovery funding» to strengthen affordable housing; ask for
federal leaders to expand funding for programs, such as the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, so at - risk municipalities can develop disaster plans and assess their vulnerabilities; and boost economic stability by opposing
cuts to the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, so
families can afford to eat after a disaster.
Although officials from the 4,000 districts nationwide that receive
federal impact - aid funds have been outspoken in their opposition to
cuts in the program recommended by the Reagan Administration, the Fairfax school board was the first in the country to threaten military
families with tuition charges to make up for the lost support.
Plans for
federal tax
cuts and reforms need to be fleshed out in ways that provide greater benefits for children in
families most in need.
Present plans for
federal tax
cuts and reforms are predicated, in part, on helping
families by directly putting more money in their pockets.
Outside of education, many
cuts proposed in President Trump's fiscal year 2018 budget — including stripping funding for Medicaid, school breakfast and lunch programs, and short - term
federal income assistance for low - income
families — would slash much - needed services or leave states holding the bag.
The
cuts to Head Start and to subsidies for school districts that serve
families working at
federal facilities, like Naval Base San Diego, were to take effect Jan. 1.
Among the proposed
cuts are grant programs, including Teacher Education Assistance grants (for those who agree to teach, after college, for four years in a public school serving low - income
families) and
Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (additional grant money for qualified undergraduate students from the lowest income levels).
If you split up to $ 50,000 of income (i.e. your notional income is $ 90,000 and your spouse's notional income is $ 60,000), the maximum
family tax
cut of $ 2,000 is claimed, even though your notional combined
federal taxes would be an estimated $ 5,000 less.
The
federal Conservatives moved on a four - year - old election promise Thursday by introducing income splitting for
families, dubbing it «The
Family Tax
Cut.»
Revenue from the tax «would be used to
cut the state's sales tax, and to create a Working
Families Rebate, based on the
federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), to boost the incomes of low - income households.»
The cost of annual
federal fossil fuel production subsidies is equivalent to the projected 2018 budget
cuts from Trump's proposals to slash 10 public programs and services that benefit some of the nation's most vulnerable children and
families.
The goal was to be able to assess the responsiveness of the heart (non-chaotic hearts are moribund) The work is still incomplete due to state and
federal cuts, and my need to support a
family.
The legislature in Washington directed the state to raise eligibility under the program from 200 % to 250 % of the
federal poverty level, reversing an earlier attempt by the state agency, as part of a larger effort to
cut state expenditures, to discontinue its existing Medicaid
family planning expansion.
Despite efforts of anti-women's health politicians to
cut family planning, the bill passed by the committee today protects Title X — the nation's only
federal program for birth control that 4 million women count on each year — and Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs that provides young people the tools to plan for their futures.
There are twin pressures on this clinic: There's the threat of the
federal government
cutting Medicaid reimbursements and Title X funding (the latter would affect all
family - planning providers, including Planned Parenthood; the former would affect Planned Parenthood specifically).
To make headway in justice and violence prevention, the alliance calls on the next
Federal Government to adopt justice targets as part of the Closing the Gap framework, to overturn funding
cuts to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Legal Services and to reinstate the National
Family Violence Prevention Legal Services Program.