Sentences with phrase «safety net programs»

A real question comes up with how we deal with social safety net programs?

The state also faces continuing uncertainty about the federal role in safety net programs.

Last year, 46 percent of child - care workers were part of families enrolled in at least one public safety net program, compared with 26 percent of those in the broader workforce.

If charities could really replace government safety net programs (welfare) then why did poverty drop so dramatically once welfare programs were implemented?

Our equine safety net programs are designed to keep horses and their owners together, provide humane end of life options or find a new and loving home for the horse.

Areas of focus for safety net programs vary, ranging from pet food banks to financial assistance for veterinary bills to temporary housing for animals.

And KHS is providing safety net programming for pet owners, including a Pet Help Line that offers advice on common behavior issues and referrals for local pet food banks and low - cost veterinary care and some funding for owned animal medical care.

Long says she wants to keep the social safety net programs like Medicare intact, but does not support spending increases.

The ASPCA has established Safety Net programs at two L.A. animal shelters, Baldwin Park Animal Care Center and Downey Animal Care Center, to help these locations — and in turn the city and county — curb their homeless animal intake.

Official Poverty Measure Fails to Provide an Accurate Assessment of Anti-Poverty Programs The Supplemental Poverty Measure Shows U.S. Child Poverty Rate Cut Nearly in Half by Safety Net Programs and... [more]

The report describes a better index for measuring poverty — the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM)-- which captures the effect of safety net programs and tax policies on families.

«The ASPCA actively supports safety net programs across the country, which enable owners to keep their pets in their own homes by providing services such as access to affordable veterinary care or help with pet - friendly housing,» Dr. Emily Weiss, vice president of research and development for the ASPCA, told The Dodo.

In 103 of those counties, Planned Parenthood served all of the women who rely on safety net programs for their birth control.

The ASPCA safety net programs provide alternatives to pet parents who may otherwise surrender their pets to animal shelters.

Yavapai Humane Society's Safety Net program helps pets and their families stay together during difficult financial times or dislocations, hospitalizations, evictions, domestic violence displacements and other sad situations.

Provides funds for our Community Animal Safety Net Program to be used to help keep pets in their homes and out of the shelter.

Through safety net programs like Social Security and Medicare, as well as private savings that have proven surprisingly resilient, we've significantly reduced poverty rates among the elderly.

Last August, a cocker spaniel named Dodger was brought by his owner, Jeanette, to one of the L.A. shelters where the ASPCA safety net program is stationed.

bringing food safety net programs up to scale at the national level with investments that target better health, nutrition and formal education programs.

Includes information on how Congress should maintain its historically bipartisan commitment to these nutrition safety net programs: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), Child Nutrition Appropriations, Senior Nutrition Programs, The Emergency Food Assistance Program (TEFAP), Congressional Hunger Center.

It also includes widely used safety net programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps), and a significant amount of federal spending on transportation, among other things.

It also marks the beginning of the «health center funding cliff» precipitated by the failure of Congress to work together to renew funding for the Health Center Program and other critical safety net programs, like the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

The House GOP tax bill is likely to raise the deficit substantially, thereby putting pressure to cut federal safety net programs used by poor people, said Leonard Burman of the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center.

By 2026, 22 million fewer Americans would have health coverage and enrollment in the Medicaid safety net program for the poor «would fall by about 16 percent and an estimated 49 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.»

The PPA will help represent the state pediatric dentistry association in promoting children's oral health issues with the state legislature and other elected bodies, state regulatory agencies (including Medicaid and health departments), licensing bureaus, professional health and child welfare organizations, oral health coalitions, foundations, institutions of dental education, publicly - funded safety net programs, and the private sector benefits industry.

His current interests include developing community safety net programs to reduce owner - surrenders, and the impact of non-traditional partnerships on expanding the reach of animal welfare efforts.

Generous support from the Banfield Charitable Trust helps JHS keep pets in loving homes by supporting our Pet Safety Net program efforts.

Listen to some voices on the right of the political spectrum, and you might start to worry that the more social safety net programs there are, such as state - sponsored health insurance, food stamps, and welfare, the less incentive people will have to strive and make sacrifices.

Raised by parents who relied on government assistance before starting a business, Olds was intrigued by how safety net programs impact entrepreneurship generally.

We also have a problem managing our public pensions and our premiere safety net program, Social Security.

This review is a summary of proposed reductions to SNAP and an overview of how other critical nutrition programs and other social safety net programs fare in the president's budget.

I know of many undocumented economic refugees who due to minor violations of the law are under the threat of deportation and can not become citizens despite being the parents of AMERICAN children and can not access vital social safety net programs due to this.

Labor & Community Groups To Travel The State Demanding Preservation of Social Safety Net Programs Tuesday July 19, 2011 at 02:10 pm

Money from the fund supports some of the state's most important safety net programs --» the State's Medicaid program, Family Health Plus, workforce recruitment and retention, the Elderly Pharmaceutical Insurance Coverage (EPIC) program, Child Health Plus (CHP), Graduate Medical Education, AIDS programs, disproportionate share payments to hospitals and other various public health initiatives,» according to the state's financial plan.

«He knows how to deliver crucial safety net programs to residents, navigate constantly changing state and federal regulations and ensure that tax dollars are spent wisely.»

«Public safety net programs do not operate in silos; health can not be addressed without attending to proper nutrition.

From the latest relinquishment studies to innovative safety net programs, this section provides you with the tools you need to keep pets at home.

In addition to working within the US, he has enjoyed volunteering with organizations throughout the world: Whether vaccinating street dogs in India, teaching spay - neuter in Cape Verde, or helping to build safety net programs here at home, Mike will often say, «This is an engineering problem.

Safety net programs allow you to take in only the animals who truly have no other options, which is better for the animals and your organization.

Strategic and well resourced safety net programs should be in place to enable and encourage collaboration between key agencies (animal shelters, rescues, veterinarians, law enforcement, human service providers, food banks and policy makers) to identify situations where keeping pets and people together may be the best course of action and ensure that vital services are provided to accomplish this goal.

And over the past five years, the ASPCA has distributed nearly $ 4 million in grants to over 300 organizations in 46 states to support similar safety net programs.

«Low - income people might end being worse off because they're really not getting anything from the bill and they might end up bearing the cost of cutting big safety net programs,» Burman said.

In 332 counties across the country, Planned Parenthood served at least half of the women who rely on safety net programs like Medicaid and Title X for their birth control.

In Los Angeles, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals» Animal Safety Net program has housed more than 330 such pets since 1998, some from as far as Florida.

The question, then as now, is whether freedom and republican virtue can be squared with the existence of safety net programs and some version of the modern regulatory state.

Over the past five years, the ASPCA has distributed nearly $ 4 million in grants to over 300 organizations in 46 states to support safety net programs.

SSI is the basic federal safety net program for the elderly, blind and disabled, providing them with a minimum guaranteed income.