Sentences with phrase «series of block grants»
The proposal would also convert Medicaid, the health program for the poor, into a series of block grants to give states more flexibility.
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After a stint as The News» computer assisted reporting editor, Heaney joined the paper's newly formed investigative reporting team and produced a series of investigations related to economic development, including the city's squandering of federal block grant funds, and, with colleague Patrick Lakamp, the failings of the state Empire Zone program.
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.
A series of bipartisan negotiations between Reps. Miller and John Boehner, R - Ohio, chairman of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, produced a bill that was similar to the Senate's, but without the block - grant provisions.