Sentences with phrase «in federal welfare»

In 1975 Congress passed the Child Support Enforcement and Paternity Establishment Program, or CSE, in response to increasing enrollment in federal welfare programs of children of separated parents.

The research has been spurred by changes in federal welfare policies that have emphasized moving families, often headed by single women, off public assistance.

Not exact matches

The federal government has secured opposition support to pass one of the most substantial budget packages since the Coalition took office in 2013, making trade - offs on renewable energy funding and welfare payments to pick up about $ 6 billion in savings.

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.

Moreover, they argue that federal subsidies are warranted because a significant portion of state and local government spending is for education, health, public welfare, and transportation, all of which have important spillovers that benefit the population in other jurisdictions as well.

For its part, the federal government, from the earliest census in 1790 to the creation of New Deal social welfare programs, has long relied on aggregate as well as individual data to distribute resources and administer benefits.

The ambitious effort to shrink federal assistance has been dubbed «Welfare Reform 2.0», after Bill Clinton's overhaul of the welfare system in 1996.

And in any case, the federal government is not stopped from partnering with the provinces on nation - wide initiatives in health, welfare and education.

Arguably his signature achievement is to have radically reduced the fiscal capacity of the federal government, and with it, the broader role of government in advancing the economic and social welfare of Canadians.

Social welfare spending constitutes a small part of the federal budget, but the decrease in tax revenues that would ensue from this proposal appears rather large.

There are highly partisan policy debates in which I have gladly joined on the conservative side — on federal enterprise zones, on a youth opportunity wage, on educational vouchers for low - income students, on stimulating ownership among responsible public - housing tenants, on requiring work from able - bodied welfare recipients, on dealing sternly with those who violently brutalize their neighbors.

Utah is ranked 43rd in the list of total federal welfare recipient states.

Mitt Romney has gotten more corporate welfare from the federal gov» t for his bailouts and who knows what else, than the average person would get in a lifetime.

The New Nationalism he put forward in his quixotic Bull Moose campaign for the presidency in 1912, with its sweeping program of federal regulation of the economy and guarantees for social welfare, set the blueprint for the big government crusades of Progressivism, the New Deal, and the Great Society.

In 1996 a «Charitable Choice» section was added to the federal welfare reform law, establishing new rules for collaboration between government and religious institutions.

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.

Already some question the involvement of religious social welfare agencies in various Federal programs.

Some men contend that no governmental funds, local or Federal, ought to be expended by religious organizations in such welfare activities as homes for the aged, child care, orphanages, and hospitals.

They are the ones who use racist, nasty comments about the poor on welfare and call them «takers» when in fact the Federal government spends 10 times more on corporate tax loopholes and «corporate welfare» in subsidies to oil companies, the sugar and corn industries and many others.

The emergence of industrial civilization, in other words, called forth a federal apparatus sufficient to the need to regulate the private sector in the public interest, to provide macroeconomic stability amidst the uncertainties of the business cycle, and to offer the nation's citizens welfare and security programs appropriate to the vicissitudes of modern life.

In December 2017, the USDA announced it would decouple animal welfare standards from federal regulations around organic certification.

THE government's long - awaited review of the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) has been released today, and according to federal Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce, it indicates Australia is «a clear world leader in the welfare of exported live animals».

The Federal Agriculture Department suspends shipments of Australian sheep to an abattoir in Qatar over new allegations of animal welfare violations and breaches of supply chain rules.

Animals Australia is joining tireless advocates Colin Riddell and Bob Irwin in a Coalition of 28 animal welfare and conservation groups calling on the Federal Government to ban the hunting of all endangered and vulnerable native species.

By way of comparison, in 1960, welfare spending in the United States was $ 48.20 per capita with 1.7 % of the population receiving federal assistance.

Meanwhile workers in the state have asked the Federal Government to release the allocations due to the state and stop toying with the welfare of citizens to settle political scores.

The powers of the Federal Government are enumerated in the Constitution, but many of those clauses have been debated extensively without resolution: interstate commerce, general welfare, etc..

The Congress declares that the establishment of a Department of Education is in the public interest, will promote the general welfare of the United States, will help ensure that education issues receive proper treatment at the Federal level, and will enable the Federal Government to coordinate its education activities more effectively.

The Director stated that given the experience Osun gathered in its introduction and implementation of the Osun Youth Empowerment Scheme and the social welfare for Osun's most vulnerable old people called Agba Osun, the Muhammadu Buhari - led Federal Government has touched on the very aspects of national life that had contributed to youth restiveness, kidnapping, other crimes and care for the desperately poor.

Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities.

He pledged his administration's commitment to the welfare of the people of the state in the remaining period of his tenure, adding also that President Muhammadu Buhari - led Federal Government will continue to do all it can to improve the living conditions of Nigerians.

According to Faleke, «We came to the presidency to let the federal government know what is happening in Kogi state as regards the fortunes of the party, the way it is dwindling day by day as regards the civil servant, the welfare of the people and their relationship with the state government.

In a veiled reference to the Secretary to the Federal Government, Mr Babachir David Lawal, over an allegation of multimillion naira contract relating to the welfare of the Internally Displaced People of the Northeast, Fayose accused the federal government of sweeping under the carpet, the panel set up to try many of the APC's cFederal Government, Mr Babachir David Lawal, over an allegation of multimillion naira contract relating to the welfare of the Internally Displaced People of the Northeast, Fayose accused the federal government of sweeping under the carpet, the panel set up to try many of the APC's cfederal government of sweeping under the carpet, the panel set up to try many of the APC's cronies.

The federal government has repeatedly ranked the state's welfare - to - work programs as among the worst in the U.S. in helping to move poor people into jobs.

From its cannibalistic proclivities, the world can see why the APC and its insensitive Federal Government care less about the lives and welfare of Nigerians, resulting in the escalation of violence, bloodletting, mass killings, extra-judicial executions, persecution of citizens, abuse of human rights, constitutional violations, including invasion of the National Assembly as well as attack on federal lawmakers and judicial ofFederal Government care less about the lives and welfare of Nigerians, resulting in the escalation of violence, bloodletting, mass killings, extra-judicial executions, persecution of citizens, abuse of human rights, constitutional violations, including invasion of the National Assembly as well as attack on federal lawmakers and judicial offederal lawmakers and judicial officers.

The city says it has no choice — since Governor Cuomo has decided to divert $ 25 million in federal funds from senior services to child welfare programs.

Rep. Claudia Tenney (R - Oneida County), said «From day one, I have fought against the elimination of the federal deduction for state and local taxes (SALT), and will work to ensure the deduction is included in the final bill... The real question is: When will Gov. Cuomo stop wasting hard - earned tax payer money on corporate welfare and political self - promotion schemes and finally give New Yorkers the relief they desperately need?»

Updegrove noted that SNA was not mandated by the federal government under welfare reforms signed into law by former President Bill Clinton in 1996.

He tasked the Federal Government to provide good governance and social welfare for the people in order to prevent more Nigerians from taking «risky trips.»

Despite providing a crucial role in women's health and welfare, the nonprofit has come under recent attack, with several calls to revoke the group's federal funding, which, along with state sources, accounts for almost half of its $ 1 - billion budget.

The purpose of the IRB is to protect the rights and welfare of human research subjects and to ensure that all human subject research be conducted in accordance with federal, state, institutional, and ethical guidelines.

(NaturalHealth365) In 2015, healthcare spending in the United States reached a jaw - dropping $ 3.2 trillion — exceeding the federal spending for national defense, homeland security, education and welfarIn 2015, healthcare spending in the United States reached a jaw - dropping $ 3.2 trillion — exceeding the federal spending for national defense, homeland security, education and welfarin the United States reached a jaw - dropping $ 3.2 trillion — exceeding the federal spending for national defense, homeland security, education and welfare.

In a provision tucked into the 1996 federal welfare law, Congress earmarked $ 250 million over five years to pay for abstinence education in every statIn a provision tucked into the 1996 federal welfare law, Congress earmarked $ 250 million over five years to pay for abstinence education in every statin every state.

I'd argue, in fact, that this marks the sharpest reversal of federal ambitions in domestic policy in 20 years — since the welfare reform act of 1996.

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.

One way forward for simplification and increases in the productivity of the federal investment is to make social programs intended to support lower income families with children more like tax expenditures — putting more money directly in the hands of parents to spend on the care and development of their children and less money directly in the financial accounts of states, welfare agencies, and social service providers.

Particularly, I want to emphasize my conviction that militant tactics have no place in the functions of any organization of Government employees... Upon employees in the Federal service rests the obligation to serve the whole people, whose interests and welfare require orderliness and continuity in the conduct of Government activities.

More broadly, ESSA does something exquisitely rare — it actively shrinks the federal footprint, in perhaps the sharpest reversal of federal ambitions since the welfare - reform act of 1996.

(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter to the contrary, if the administrator finds that an immediate danger to the public health, safety, or welfare requires adoption of a regulation upon fewer than 35 days» notice or that action is required by or to comply with a federal statute or regulation which requires adoption of a regulation upon fewer than 35 days» notice and states in writing its reasons for that finding, it may proceed without prior notice or hearing or upon any abbreviated notice and hearing that it finds practicable, to adopt an emergency regulation.

Foster children get help in combating ID theft — A 2011 federal law says when foster children turn 16, child welfare agencies must help them get annual credit reports and clear up any mistakes.