Sentences with phrase «federal poverty programs»

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To be eligible for Lifeline, participants must have an income less than 135 % of the federal poverty level or qualify for one of several other programs for the poor, such as Medicaid or food stamps.

And he built on that concept on Thursday, announcing that his firm will bolster its patient assistance programs for more than 40 drugs, including by helping people who make up to four times the federal poverty level buy their treatments for free.

So far, 31 states and the District of Columbia have expanded their Medicaid programs under the ACA to cover adults who earn up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level — or $ 16,394 per year.

Trump signed the Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility executive order on Tuesday, directing federal agencies to expand work requirements for those who receive benefits from government assistance programs such as Medicaid, SNAP, and public housing.

«The federal government should do everything within its authority to empower individuals by providing opportunities for work, including by investing in federal programs that are effective at moving people into the workforce and out of poverty,» the order read, according to CNN.

Poverty guidelines: Income levels used to determine eligibility for participation in means - tested federal programs.

The fact that poverty remains a serious problem in the United States after the federal government has spent $ 22 trillion dollars on social welfare programs over the past fifty years should have taught us all something about the complex problems of empowering the poor.

Federal programmers said poverty had structural causes, yet the main aim of antipoverty programs was to enhance the skills of the poor, not to recast society.

The program is targeted at assisting those at or below the federal poverty levels.

Successful, cost - effective federal nutrition programs play a critical role in reducing child poverty and helping children access healthy foods while improving their overall health, development, and school achievement.

The federal Early Head Start program was created to help minimize the disparities caused by poverty by supporting the healthy development of expectant mothers and low - income infants and toddlers in the context of their families and communities.

In this role, he is responsible for managing and analyzing data on federal food and nutrition programs, poverty, food insecurity, and the economy.

Two other accompanying white papers describe the critical role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the federal Child Nutrition Programs in alleviating poverty, reducing food insecurity, and improving nutrition, health, and well - being.

In this role, she is responsible for leading the efforts to improve public policies to end hunger, reduce poverty, promote nutrition and increase the availability of healthy affordable food in low - income areas; maximize participation in all federal nutrition programs (SNAP, school meals, early childhood nutrition, WIC, and summer meals); and educate the public about both the stark reality of hunger's existence in the nation's capital and the real opportunities for effective solutions.

cFPL = Federal Poverty Level: a measure of income level for determining financial eligibility for some welfare programs and benefits

dFPL = Federal Poverty Level: a measure of income level for determining financial eligibility for some welfare programs and benefits

eFPL = Federal Poverty Level: a measure of income level for determining financial eligibility for some welfare programs and benefits

The truth is, there are no success stories of people who've truly risen from poverty to security on their own, without (rightfully) taking advantage of some kind of federal program, from public education to basic infrastructure.

The IDC's plan would include a strengthening of the Facilitated Enrollment Child Care subsidy by hiking funding to $ 25 million and would expand those eligible for the program to within 400 percent of the federal poverty line.

While the City of Kingston, home to some of the Ulster County's poorest census tracts and a recipient of federal entitlement money for anti-poverty programs, has a combined poverty / ALICE rate of 61 percent, the rate in Shandaken and Saugerties is 56 percent.

-- The budget approves the creation of a Basic Health Program, an insurance program available under the Affordable Care Act that provides insurance for people whose incomes are between 138 and 200 percent of the federal povertyProgram, an insurance program available under the Affordable Care Act that provides insurance for people whose incomes are between 138 and 200 percent of the federal povertyprogram available under the Affordable Care Act that provides insurance for people whose incomes are between 138 and 200 percent of the federal poverty level.

Families who make 200 percent or less above the federal poverty level are eligible for childcare subsidy programs in New York State.

In New York, 840,000 children are lifted above the poverty line each year by safety net programs; 597,000 residents were lifted out of poverty by the earned income tax credit and child tax credit from 2011 — 2013; 576,000 low - income households rely on federal rental assistance; 2,968,000 residents received SNAP in FY 2016; and hundreds of thousands more rely on investments in job training, education, and other social services.

Nass, Stroebel and Kapenga wrote a memo demanding amendments that would prohibit UW from spending $ 4 million on diversity training for students and faculty; raise the income eligibility for the statewide voucher program to 300 percent of the federal poverty level; repeal the state prevailing wage on Jan. 1; and forbid municipalities to impose any wheel tax not approved through a referendum.

The income threshold to qualify for the Fair Fares program would be defined by the federal poverty line, which is $ 23,339 for a family of four, according to City Council Speaker Corey Johnson, who is also a rumored 2021 mayoral candidate.

Poverty and more specific generational poverty can only be effectively addressed through strategic community partnerships, between the city, Onondaga County, who administers all social service programs and our state and federal goverPoverty and more specific generational poverty can only be effectively addressed through strategic community partnerships, between the city, Onondaga County, who administers all social service programs and our state and federal goverpoverty can only be effectively addressed through strategic community partnerships, between the city, Onondaga County, who administers all social service programs and our state and federal governments.

States were given the option of expanding their Medicaid programs to enroll more people into the health care exchanges, to those earning up to 138 % percentof the federal poverty level.

In 2009, more than one in five New York City residents lived in poverty, with experts saying the level would have been higher without the federal economic stimulus program.

«The program offers subsidies to parents earning less than 275 % of the federal poverty level.

Extend the state food stamp program to another 750,000 households by raising the eligibility from households with income at 130 percent of the federal poverty level to those with 150 percent of the poverty level.

Of the children, 25.9 percent were enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program; 21.7 percent were commercially insured with household incomes at or below 250 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL); and 18.2 percent had higher cost - sharing levels for all services (e.g. $ 75 or more for an emergency department visit).

Washington — Although the federal Chapter 1 program bypasses some schools with high poverty rates and some students with low achievement levels, it generally reaches the disadvantaged children it was meant to benefit, a new Education Department study concludes.

In the NAEP analysis, the authors estimate student poverty with data from the federal lunch program and estimate additional student characteristics using data on possession of an Individualized Education Program (IEP) and English Language Learner (ELL) status, admittedly a common practice when analyzing educatioprogram and estimate additional student characteristics using data on possession of an Individualized Education Program (IEP) and English Language Learner (ELL) status, admittedly a common practice when analyzing educatioProgram (IEP) and English Language Learner (ELL) status, admittedly a common practice when analyzing education data.

We examine the Florida Tax Credit (FTC) scholarship program, which provides private school tuition scholarships to children from low - income families (defined as those making less than 185 percent of the federal poverty level, which is the same eligibility requirement as for a free or reduced - price lunch).

That amounts to $ 6,439 per student this year, or about $ 2,000 less, on average, than at other Nevada public schools, which receive money from federal poverty and special - education programs.

Data based on the poverty line — the income level at which people are considered to be poor — are used to determine eligibility for many federal - aid programs, including Title I and the school - lunch program.

As the article notes, schools in the MPCP cater to low - income, minority families; the program is limited to Milwaukee families within 300 percent of the federal poverty line, most of whom are African American or Hispanic.

But the pilot offers a shot at increasing the effectiveness of federal programs like Title I. Despite an annual budget of $ 15 billion, study after study has shown the 53 - year - old cornerstone of Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty is not having the intended effect of improving impoverished students» outcomes.

Scholarship recipients in Florida must earn less than 185 % of the federal poverty line, which is the income threshold for the federal government's free and reduced lunch program.

In order to be eligible for an FTC scholarship, students must meet the income guidelines (until recently, family incomes below 185 percent of the federal poverty line for new applicants) and either must have attended a Florida public school for the full school year before program entry or be entering kindergarten or first grade.

And though Arizona's corporate STC program has no means - testing requirement, a 2011 study found that more than two - thirds of scholarship recipients earned less than 185 % of the federal poverty line.

In criticizing the federal regulation, for example, Weingarten claimed that «the flawed framework... will punish teacher - prep programs whose graduates go on to teach in our highest - needs schools, most often those with high concentrations of students who live in poverty and English language learners.»

The design of the federal Title I program has become cumbersome and obsolete, with distributions today having little connection to district - level poverty.

Louisiana The Tuition Donation Debate Program, enacted in 2012, provides scholarship credits for students of families earning up to 250 percent of the federal poverty guideline.

To qualify for the Opportunity Scholarship Program, students must either receive benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or have a family earning no more than 185 percent of the federal poverty level when they enter the program ($ 43,568 for a family of four in 2013 —Program, students must either receive benefits under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) or have a family earning no more than 185 percent of the federal poverty level when they enter the program ($ 43,568 for a family of four in 2013 —Program (SNAP) or have a family earning no more than 185 percent of the federal poverty level when they enter the program ($ 43,568 for a family of four in 2013 —program ($ 43,568 for a family of four in 2013 — 2014).

New Hampshire The Education Tax Credit Program, enacted in 2012, provides scholarships to children whose household income does not exceed 300 percent of the federal poverty guideline.

Students from families with household incomes up to 300 percent of the federal poverty line (slightly less than $ 70,000 for a family of four) are eligible, making these programs more examples of inclusive school - choice programs created last year.

Oklahoma's program is means - tested, and students from families with household incomes of up to 300 percent of the federal poverty line are eligible to participate.

The Problem of Head Start Nowhere is resistance to structured, curriculum - based, standards - and - assessment - driven early education clearer than in the big, iconic, federal early - childhood program known as Head Start, a legacy of Lyndon Johnson's mid-1960s declaration of war on poverty.

To complete her analysis, Cascio compared the academic outcomes of preschoolers who qualified for federal free - or reduced - price lunch programs, a standard measure of poverty, in states that offered universal preschool to similar preschoolers in states that offered only targeted preschool.