Sentences with phrase «public welfare programs»

Judges are also influenced by economic conditions and public welfare programs, or lack thereof.

Park, who will seek a third term as mayor in the June elections, told CoinDesk Korea that S - Coin — as the cryptocurrency is tentatively named — could be used as a payment mechanism in the South Korean capital to fund public welfare programs or compensate private contractors.

Seoul's mayor, Park Won - soon, proposed the idea to launch a city - wide digital currency — called S - coin — as a means to fund public welfare programs and pay private contractors.

Park Won - soon, Seoul's mayor is outing forward his idea to launch a city - wide digital currency, called S - coin which will be responsible to fund public welfare programs and pay private contractors.

In the 1970s and 1980s, as trends like these began to arouse widespread commentary, conservative writers such as Charles Murray blamed public welfare programs for undermining black family life in the U.S..

The team that ran Yahoo China will be responsible for Alibaba's public welfare program, the Internet giant said in a statement Saturday.

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Typical programs of this sort include most public welfare spending, subsidized operations, and the pricing systems of many public utilities.

Some think of it as no more than a libertarian system, concerned with economic liberty alone, exaggeratedly individualistic, indifferent or even antithetical to welfare programs for the poor, unconcerned with the public good, focused solely on markets and private profit.

Their plan is to destroy ALL People programs from Medicare to SS to food stamps to public education to veteran healthcare and pensions to college grants to every single welfare program and the list goes on and on.

In previous chapters I have suggested what concerned citizens can do to deal with television without censorship: create local television councils and community action to get stations to accept their responsibility for the public welfare; introduce media education courses in the schools and churches to create media literacy; organize community groups to develop programs relating to community issues on the «narrowcast» media of cable - TV, videocassettes, low - power TV, public - broadcasting facilities, and commercial side - band channels; employ stockholder action and other economic measures.

Health Care in an Aging Society Mr. James C. Capretta, a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), was an Associate Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) from 2001 to 2004, where he was the top budget official for health care, Social Security, education, and welfare programs.

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.

Does not participate in the following government aid programs: cash assistance, welfare, public housing and section 8.

Do not participate in certain government aid programs including cash assistance, welfare, public housing or section 8.

- Other demands made of the school lunch apparatus — ALL lunches served in public schools are subsidized and thus represent food welfare programs.

Lunch Line illustrates that, while the National School Lunch Program has become an easy target for critics, the program has a unique capacity for addressing child welfare, the public good, and the problem of Program has become an easy target for critics, the program has a unique capacity for addressing child welfare, the public good, and the problem of program has a unique capacity for addressing child welfare, the public good, and the problem of hunger.

Prior to that, she has served as chief of a Manhattan district attorney's office unit that prosecuted fraud in public assistance programs such as welfare, public housing and Medicaid.

Picente said that Oneida County is facing a huge slowdown in reimbursements for state mandated Department of Social Service (DSS) programs such as Medicaid, child welfare, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and public health.

NEW YORK, NY (05/11/2012)(readMedia)-- Early this afternoon, a team of welfare recipients, unemployed New Yorkers looking for work, public housing residents, and people living with HIV / AIDS — members of the grassroots organizing groups Community Voices Heard (CVH) and Voices of Community Activists and Leaders (VOCAL - NY)-- led other New York residents in a series of actions in Lower Manhattan to highlight the inequality prevalent in our City today, and lift up the need to restore critical programs currently proposed to be cut in Mayor Bloomberg's Fiscal Year 2013 budget.

This finding suggests that government programs designed to promote marriage, such as the federal Healthy Marriage Initiative and others like it that emerged from the 1996 welfare - reform legislation, aren't likely to improve public health, the researchers say.

In a new analysis, Douglas Webber of Temple University finds that increased state for public - welfare programs — in particular, Medicaid — is the single biggest contributor to the decline in higher - education funding, with a $ 1 increase in per capita public - welfare spending associated with a $ 2.44 decrease in per - student higher - education funding.

In reality, there are 50 different answers to this question, but in the aggregate, states have shifted most of their former investment toward public - welfare programs, particularly Medicaid.

There is no tax break, no welfare reform, no marriage education program, no public service campaign... that can reduce out - of - wedlock birth rates and divorce rates to what they were as recently as when the Everly Brothers beseeched «Little Suzy» to wake up lest their reputations get shot.

But at the same time, society's systems for fostering human potential — public education, social welfare programs, workforce training — are widely viewed as underperforming and even as contributing to inequality rather than helping to remedy it.

Public welfare, for instance, includes four major programs, from income assistance to Medicaid to food stamps.

«For every dollar invested in high - quality, comprehensive programs supporting children... there is a $ 7 - $ 10 return to society in decreased need for special education services, higher graduation and employment rates, less crime, less use of the public welfare system, and better health.»

The Children's Guild operates evidence - based behavioral health and child welfare programs, public charter and special education schools, and a national training and consulting program.

Equally offensive is the stingy $ 83 billion dollar budget which grossly under - funds public schools while pouring millions into that sketchy corporate charter welfare program called «Schools of Hope.»

For the prekindergarten program alone, they identified $ 92,220 in present value benefits and $ 8,512 in present value costs in 2007 dollars — a benefit - cost ratio of 10.83 to 1.22 The benefits derived mainly from reduced public education expenditures due to lower grade retention and use of special education, reduced costs to the criminal justice system and victims of crime due to lower crime rates, reduced expenditures on child welfare due to less child abuse and neglect, higher projected earnings of center participants, and increased income tax revenue due to projected higher lifetime earnings of center participants.

They view universal pre-kindergarten as not just an end in itself but also a first step toward much more comprehensive public social welfare programs for preschool - age children and their families: prenatal care, parental leave, universal children's health care, and quality child care.

(B) provide that the State agency so designated to administer or supervise the administration of the State plan, or (if there are two State agencies designated under subclause (A) of this clause) to supervise or administer the part of the State plan that does not relate to services for the blind, shall be (i) a State agency primarily concerned with vocational REHABILITATION, or vocational and other REHABILITATION, of handicapped individuals, (ii) the State agency administering or supervising the administration of education or vocational education in the State, or (iii) a State agency which includes at least two other major organizational units each of which administers one or more of the major public education, public health, public welfare, or labor programs of the State; provide, except in the case of agencies described in clause (1)(B)(i)-

Our mission is to promote the automobile industry; to disseminate information to our members and consumers; to promote the welfare of the automobile industry; to continue to improve the public perception of the industry; to establish and conduct educational training programs for the benefit of member dealer employees; and to sponsor and produce the Charlotte International Auto Show to exhibit new and innovative automotive products to the public

Discover how the ASPCA's Disaster Response Program works with emergency management, public health, and animal welfare organizations to prepare for natural and man - made disasters — and how you can put these principles to use in your own community.

Amy leads the organization's strategic growth initiatives: opening new clinics in underserved communities, providing training and consulting programs to animal welfare organizations and advocating for strategies and public policy that improve the lives of pets in underserved communities.

No More Homeless Pets is a campaign involving animal welfare and rescue organizations, animal control officers, veterinarians, schools, and animal lovers from across the state in aggressive spay / neuter, adoption, and public awareness programs.

The mission of the Animal Adoption League (AAL) is to provide veterinary care and temporary - to - permanent housing for homeless and rescued animals; to provide the best adoptive situation and outlet for the permanent placement of these animals; to educate the general public in the importance of reducing pet overpopulation through spay / neuter programs along with the care and overall welfare of animals; and to work towards the ultimate goal of compassionate, humane treatment for all.

Gregory is responsible for the creation what became No - Kill Utah — a coalition of animal welfare and rescue organizations, animal control officers, veterinarians, schools and animal lovers collaborating to deliver aggressive spay / neuter, adoption and public awareness programs for the state's homeless pets.

We manage an expanding national network of high - quality, low - cost clinics; offer customized training and consulting programs to animal welfare organizations nationwide; and advocate for strategies and public policy that improve the lives of pets in underserved communities.

The Friends of San Francisco Animal Care and Control (FSFACC) is the only nonprofit organization dedicated to raising funds for the city's municipal, open - door animal shelter, San Francisco Animal Care and Control (SFACC), and its partnering rescue groups, in order to establish or enhance programs of human welfare, comfort and placement, public service and humane education.

Applications will be judged by a number of criteria, including originality, potential impact on animal welfare and number of animals affected, time frame, the need for the program and public engagement.

- to provide refuge for homeless animals and animals in need and coordinate their placement in permanent and safe home environments; - to provide education through publications, seminars, and discussions to the general public on animal health and welfare, behavior and care including the benefits of spaying and neutering; - to provide information and referrals to affordable and low cost medical care including spay & neuter clinics and other animal medical and care facilities; - to provide information on training, behavior modification and general handling instruction along with referrals to vetted and certified professionals in these areas; - to liaise and network with other animal rescue organizations as part of a mutual effort to aid animals in distress; - to solicit donations and funding from government agencies, corporations, private foundations, public charities, individuals and the general public at large to finance the medical, housing and other incidental costs of homeless animals while in the custody of the organization; - to organize and participate in fundraisers to benefit furtherance of the overall main purpose and goals of the organization; - to have the normal functions, operations, programs and pursuits incidental to a fully recognized and operational nonprofit animal rescue organization.

But just as we warned, in the municipalities where this legislation was adopted there have been no attempts to enforce it and no change in the problem of cat overpopulation, except where private cat welfare groups have established spay / neuter programs And just as we warned, the SPCA immediately used the bylaw to try to shut down a cat rescuer who was doing the work the public thought the SPCA was doing and who kept her cats in much more humane conditions than the SPCA itself.

Special programs will be offered to regional animal welfare staff, volunteers, and foster caregivers, as well as to local area youth (K through college) and the general public.

The Animal Services Division is managed by LifeLine Animal Project, a non-profit organization whose programs strengthen the entire animal welfare community by promoting homeless pet adoption, providing affordable spay / neuter services, increasing public awareness, and advocating for lifesaving public policy.

The Foundation promotes animal welfare by assisting individuals and organizations that remove animals from abusive conditions; by funding quality care and living conditions for abused or neglected animals; by promoting and providing cost - effective spay and neuter programs; by funding organizations that identify and work towards the prosecution of companies that maintain inhumane animal conditions; and by educating the public on animal fighting, adoption alternatives, and inhumane livestock conditions.

In addition to operating an animal shelter and finding good homes for homeless animals, DCACC conducts public education programs for adults and children, enforces state and county animal welfare laws, promotes responsible pet - ownership and animal welfare, and rescues animals that are lost, diseased, injured, or in peril.

Such as: animal shelters, homeless shelters, low - income assistance, child welfare, or public works programs

She started her career at Best Friends answering questions from the public on all aspects of animal care and welfare, transitioned into the manager role of that department and now serves as senior manager for national programs.

THE KAPLAN POUND DOES NOT HAVE AN ADOPTION PROGRAM TO THE PUBLIC, this is why it is a particular challenge to save pets from there; i.e. the only way pets can get out of that pound alive is through animal welfare organizations.

Many communities throughout the United States are embracing TNR programs to improve animal welfare, reduce death rates, and meet obligations to public welfare.