Sentences with phrase «states block grants»

The revised bill gives states the option to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients and pays states block grants for Medicaid, rather than using a cap system that would be more favorable to New York.

The AAP opposes the current bill in the U.S. House of Representatives, H.R. 5003, the Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016, because it would reduce access to free breakfast and lunch for children under the Community Eligibility Provision, endanger our child nutrition programs through a harmful 3 - state block grant program, weaken the evidence - based school nutrition standards, and fail to adequately invest in WIC, child care and summer feeding programs.

«We can't guess what going to happen... (State block grant funding) probably would mean the elimination of national nutrition standards.»

Indeed, efforts in the House, if successful, would begin to dismantle the national school meal program through the use of state block grants, a proposal that's been sharply criticized by anti-hunger groups and the School Nutrition Association.

Just one day before the scheduled markup of the House Education and the Workforce Committee «s «Improving Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016» (an Orwellian name if there ever was one, given how the bill would gut child nutrition), Congressman Todd Rokita (IN - R), chair of the subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary and Secondary Education, introduced a substitute amendment which, among other things, proposes a three - state block grant pilot for school breakfasts and lunches.

The House bill also proposed a a three - state block grant pilot for school meals, an idea which was seen by some as a precursor to dismantling the entire National School Lunch Program.

But Alexander now wanted to scale back the federal role, trim the education secretary power and potentially give states block granted federal funds that could be converted into school vouchers.

You may have heard SSAEG described in more political terms as a new $ 1.6 billion ESSA program that consolidates about 50 different federal funding programs into one state block grant.

The passage of the 1996 PRWORA (Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act) transformed the U.S. welfare system from a federal entitlement program that emphasized cash assistance to poor families, primarily, to a state block grant that stressed time limits and work.

The Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB), through its Title V — Children With Special Health Care Needs programs (CSHCN), supports self - assessment as a tool that assists with the development of State Block Grant applications.

Not exact matches

Block grants would give states a set amount of money to cover people on the Medicaid program and provide flexibility in spending decisions.

Speaking on NBC's Meet the Press, Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine worried the bill would harm older Americans, and shift Medicaid costs to states — something critics say a block - grant approach would only make worse.

Ryan also said Republicans were working on changes that would allow federal block grants to states for Medicaid and permit states to impose a work requirement for able - bodied Medicaid recipients.

(Reuters)- A U.S. judge blocked Obama administration guidance that transgender public school students must be allowed to use bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by a group of 13 states led by Texas.

The bill divides federal healthcare funding to the states using block grants — a lump sum of sorts paid up front to states — rather than the current percent match of actual spending.

In addition, states could decide whether to take per capita allotments for their Medicaid programs or block grants for certain populations.

Across the country, other states have been experimenting with similar programs to keep low - income working parents from falling off the child care cliff, in keeping with the recommendations in the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act passed in 2014.

The budget also proposes block granting Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) at pre-ACA levels along with a state option of per - capita cap funding.

For example, changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program include converting the program into a block grant and requiring states to finance 25 percent of the total costs, eliminating the ability for states to waive work requirements, and ending categorical eligibility, among other changes.

In a March speech, the likely GOP nominee said he would reduce barriers to the interstate sale of health insurance, institute a full tax deduction for insurance premium payments for individuals, make Health Saving Accounts inheritable, require price transparency, block - grant Medicaid to the states, and allow for more overseas drug providers through lowered regulatory barriers.

Mr. Trump has already wielded the power the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States grants him to block foreign transactions.

The money thus saved is to be returned in lump sum block grants to the states to distribute food aid as they see fit.

The SNA is particularly alarmed by a proposal in the House last year to block grant school meals in three states.

DHR is the lead state agency for the federal child care subsidy funds, while Bright From the Start manages the state pre-kindergarten program, the federal child nutrition program, all child care center licensing and registering of family child care homes, and the quality and infant — toddler set - asides of the state's portion of the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant.

As reported here back in May, the School Nutrition Association (SNA) has parted ways with its former House Republican allies over the latter's controversial proposal, contained in the House Education & the Workforce Committee's Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) bill, to block grant school food in three states.

Block grants school nutrition programs in three states, a dangerous idea that will put further strain on state and local school districts» budgets and jeopardize children's access to quality, healthy school meals no matter where they live.

The Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 9801 et seq.) is amended --(1) in section 658E (c)(3)(C) by adding at the end the following: «Provision of diapers for use by eligible children within the State who receive or are offered child care services for which financial assistance is provided under this Act is a direct service and shall not be included in administrative costs.»

The «Contract with America» includes welfare - reform provisions to cut all child nutrition entitlement programs in favor of block grants to the states.

(Conservatives unveiled their own proposal yesterday, calling for all the funds currently allocated under the Affordable Care Act to be distributed to the states via block grants).

In the past the GOP talk was block grants to the states for subsidies and health savings accounts.

What's more, New York also stands to lose a big chunk of its federal Medicaid funding if Congress ever manages to get a deal on repeal and replacement of Obamacare, with the most recent proposal — Cassidy - Graham — calling for block granting those funds, in a move that would hurt New York more than any other state, Cuomo said.

House Republicans are discussing a bill that would potentially provide block grants for the state's Medicaid program.

In 1911, Roosevelt as a newly elected state senator blocked the Tammany Hall - appointee for the U.S. Senate, back when Legislatures had that power, which was ultimately a way of granting patronage posts.

Of immediate concern is providing states with a lump sum for Medicaid spending — a system known as block grants — as opposed to an open - ended entitlement.

The programme helping America's poorest citizens, Medicaid, will be delegated to the states in block grants, whose GOP controlled legislatures will have discretion to determine eligibility and level of support.

Democrats, who had railed against the impact of the legislation on a state like New York, which could have seen a gradual reduction in Medicaid spending with a block grant system, were cautious in their responses.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) today announced a popular candy maker will be able to expand its facilities, hire additional employees and grow its business in its home town of North Tonawanda with the assistance of a $ 100,000 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Small Business Program award.

The state could lose even more if a proposal is enacted to place caps on Medicaid spending and make it more a block grant program that would likely reduce federal health care spending to the state, he said.

5Written response by Broome County's Commissioner of Planning & Economic Development to a citizen FOIA request for documents regarding EIT, New York State Small Cities Program Community Development Block Grant and Broome County, 4/11/05

The deadline for health and human services organizations to apply for state funds from a 200 - million dollar block grant has already arrived.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal today announced Home Helpers and Direct Link of Amsterdam (HHDLA) will expand thanks to a $ 284,000 State Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Small Business Program award requested by the Town of Amsterdam in Montgomery County.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) today announced that the City of Geneva received an $ 80,000 NYS Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Small Business Program award it requested to help CCMI, Inc., a successful local manufacturing company, expand.

New York State Homes and Community Renewal (HCR) today announced a major northeast producer of wood construction material and supplies will be able to expand its production facilities and add jobs at its home in Oneida County with the assistance of a $ 120,000 Community Development Block Grant — Economic Development Program award.

Republican State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan acknowledged block grants have advantages.

Without a significant new investment in New York State's Child Care Block Grant, New York State will not be able to meet federal health and safety requirements and maintain the current number of child care subsidies.

«The American Health Care Act is now gonna be block granting Medicaid back to the states.

«To block grant Medicaid would be devastating for our state.

About a year after Sandy, the state utilized community development block grants (CDBGs) and HUD money to purchase the homes at prestorm prices as part of the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP).

New York was among the 31 states that participated in the expansion of the Medicaid program, which would be phased over to a block grant program, ending it as an open - ended entitlement.

Rev. Peter Young, a pioneer of programs for people with substance abuse problems, was treated to a profanity - laced tirade by a Cuomo administration official as the state continues to block the nonprofit from applying for publicly - funded grants and government contracts.