Sentences with phrase «social expenditure program»

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The federal government's excess revenues from Social Security receipts (since Social Security receipts are currently greater than expenditures) are not saved but instead are reallocated to fund other government programs.

I find that, leaving aside health care as well as public and post-secondary education, the federal government spends approximately $ 217 billion annually through tax expenditures that are conditional on children and on social programs intended to support children.

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.

Tax expenditures vs. social programs are grouped separately in the table and color - coded.

3) Simplify what is now an incoherent and confusing patchwork of social programs and tax expenditures.

[6] The columns in the table address: a) the vehicle by which funding is delivered (e.g., tax expenditure vs. social program); b) the particulars of that funding vehicle (e.g., payments to individuals vs. program providers or states); c) the dollar value of the benefit to a family; d) whether the tax benefits are refundable (provide refunds to low income families in excess of their tax liability); e) whether the benefits are progressive (inverse to family income); f) the total annual program expenditure that is conditional on children (e.g., spending on housing vouchers that goes to families without children is excluded); and g) the estimated portion of the total expenditure that goes to children under five years of age.

The tax expenditures in Table 1 have, from my perspective, the consistent advantage compared to the social program expenditures in Table 1 of putting money directly into the pockets and bank accounts of families with children.

In terms of support for young families, e.g. access to preschool programs and proportion of Gross Domestic Product for social expenditures, the U.S. ranks at the bottom just above China.

After that, taxes paid by workers will cover only 73 percent to 75 percent of the program's expenditures, according to the Social Security Administration.

The second category of social costs consists of the large amounts allocated to coping with social problems - in other words the extra cost of government expenditures on remedial programs.

The social services impact of divorce includes increased government expenditures for program such -LSB-...] Read more»

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However, the goal for which the scale has been most widely used to date is to advocate for and influence prevention policies by highlighting crucial developmental factors that prevention programs should target to improve general health and reduce medical costs and social service expenditures.22, 43,44