Sentences with phrase «housing block grant program»

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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.

Indeed, efforts in the House, if successful, would begin to dismantle the national school meal program through the use of state block grants, a proposal that's been sharply criticized by anti-hunger groups and the School Nutrition Association.

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.

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.

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

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) contributed one million to EIT through its Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program by way of the Governor's Office for Small Cities (GOSC).

Community Block Grant Program., Hillburn, Housing and Urban Development, HUD, Ramapo, scott vanderhoef

Stony Point — County Executive C. Scott Vanderhoef presented a total of $ 2.67 million in federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) funding to various municipal and not - for - profit groups at an award ceremony held ironically in Stony Point, the town that traditionally receives the least amount of support from the Community Block Grant Program.

Through funding provided by the Erie County Community Development Block Grant Program, eligible households wishing to connect their houses to new community sewer and water lines can receive up to $ 5,000 to help with associated costs.

Programs eliminated in Trump's budget plan would include HOME Investment Partnerships, Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), Choice Neighborhoods Initiative and the National Housing Trust.

Also dismaying to the mayor was the possible loss of Community Development Block Grant money, which funds everything from infrastructure to affordable housing to anti-poverty programs, and the elimination of assistance to the poor and elderly.

A spokesperson for the state Department of Housing and Community Renewal, which acts as a conduit for the Community Development Block Grant program, said the company did not receive the $ 330,000 gGrant program, said the company did not receive the $ 330,000 grantgrant.

The city determined that it would be able to use a portion of its federal Department of Housing and Urban Development Community Development Block Grant Program — Disaster Relief funds to cover this $ 28 million investment in SIUH's resiliency pProgram — Disaster Relief funds to cover this $ 28 million investment in SIUH's resiliency programprogram.

Meanwhile, his administration has failed to clean up its mismanagement of the Community Development Block Grant program — the federally funded anti-poverty program — prompting the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development in April to designate Buffalo as one of only a handful of «high risk» recipients across the nation.

The $ 3.2 million project was also funded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, NJ Housing Mortgage Finance Agency, Union County HOME program and Community Development Block Grant.

Introduced in the House of Representatives in January 2017, H.R. 610 would replace parts of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act and would, among other changes, establish a voucher program «through which each state shall distribute block grant funds among local educational agencies.»

Their companion bills, introduced in both the House and the Senate on July 23, propose getting rid of the E-rate and replacing it with a five - year program of block grants to states.

Senate Republican leaders indicated last week that they may not include provisions in their welfare - reform bill that would convert the federal school - meals and child - nutrition programs into block grants, as its House counterpart would do.

Key members of the House education committee are drafting legislation that would fold 11 federal education programs, including major initiatives such as Goals 2000, into a $ 1.4 billion block grant designed to spur reforms.

The House last week passed the last in a series of crime bills that would replace prevention and community - policing programs with a $ 10 billion block grant that local governments could spend on the anti-crime measures of their choice.

To entice a presidential signature of the legislation — which would create tax breaks for parents» public and private education expenses — House and Senate negotiators have included a new reading program in it and deleted language that would have blocked plans for new national tests and transformed most federal education funding into block grants.

With the Senate joining the House in advancing bills that would replace dozens of vocational - education and job - training programs with block grants, educators are trying to assess the likely impact of handing most authority over federal funding in those areas to states and their governors.

House Republicans caught a lot of heat from Democrats last winter over their plan, still pending, to dismantle the federal school - lunch program and wrap its funding into a child - nutrition block grant to the states.

The Trump - DeVos budget and the House Appropriation Committee bill raid student aid programs — including the federal Pell Grant reserve, which the federal government slowly established after an inadequate rainy day fund led to painful cuts56 to the program — by $ 3.9 billion and $ 3.3 billion, respectively.57 The Pell Grant is the fundamental building block of financial aid support for low - income students.

US Dept of Housing & Urban Development; Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Program

The grants are part of HUD's Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) Program, which supports a wide range of community development and affordable housing activities.

This program is made possible with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through its Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery Pprogram is made possible with funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through its Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery ProgramProgram.

• Offering the State of Connecticut and other entitlement communities the ability to re-allocate existing federal resources toward disaster relief — HUD's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME programs give the State and communities the flexibility to redirect millions of dollars to address critical needs, including housing and services for disaster victims.

The HUD recovery funds, similar to those authorized for disaster recovery efforts in Puerto Rico, are via HUD's Community Development Block Grant — Disaster Recovery (CDBG - DR) Program and «support long - term recovery, including infrastructure, seriously damaged housing, and economic recovery in the Territory» according to the HUD more...