Author: United States. President's Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance ProgramPublisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Letter to the President of the United States and the Committee's Third Interim Report
Author: United States. President's Committee to Study the United States Military Assistance ProgramPublisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Foreign Economic Assistance Programs
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign AffairsPublisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
U.S. Economic Assistance Programs, Administered by the Agency for International Development and Predecessor Agencies
Author: United States. Agency for International DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
U.S. Economic Assistance Programs
Author: United States. Agency for International DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Grants-in-aid and Other Financial Assistance Programs Administered by the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Author: Proposed Mutual Defense and Assistance Program, Economic: Agency for International Development
Author: United States. Agency for International DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Proposed Mutual Defense and Development Programs
Author: United States. Agency for International DevelopmentPublisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 946
Book Description
Report on United States Foreign Assistance Programs Prepared Pursuant to S. Res. 285, 84th Cong., and S. Res. 35, 85th Cong
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee to Study the Foreign Aid ProgramPublisher:
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Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309263476
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
For many Americans who live at or below the poverty threshold, access to healthy foods at a reasonable price is a challenge that often places a strain on already limited resources and may compel them to make food choices that are contrary to current nutritional guidance. To help alleviate this problem, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administers a number of nutrition assistance programs designed to improve access to healthy foods for low-income individuals and households. The largest of these programs is the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, which today serves more than 46 million Americans with a program cost in excess of $75 billion annually. The goals of SNAP include raising the level of nutrition among low-income households and maintaining adequate levels of nutrition by increasing the food purchasing power of low-income families. In response to questions about whether there are different ways to define the adequacy of SNAP allotments consistent with the program goals of improving food security and access to a healthy diet, USDA's Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct a study to examine the feasibility of defining the adequacy of SNAP allotments, specifically: the feasibility of establishing an objective, evidence-based, science-driven definition of the adequacy of SNAP allotments consistent with the program goals of improving food security and access to a healthy diet, as well as other relevant dimensions of adequacy; and data and analyses needed to support an evidence-based assessment of the adequacy of SNAP allotments. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Examining the Evidence to Define Benefit Adequacy reviews the current evidence, including the peer-reviewed published literature and peer-reviewed government reports. Although not given equal weight with peer-reviewed publications, some non-peer-reviewed publications from nongovernmental organizations and stakeholder groups also were considered because they provided additional insight into the behavioral aspects of participation in nutrition assistance programs. In addition to its evidence review, the committee held a data gathering workshop that tapped a range of expertise relevant to its task.
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant
Author: Gene FalkPublisher:
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Category : Public welfare
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant provides federal grants to states for a wide range of benefits, services, and activities. It is best known for helping states pay for cash welfare for needy families with children, but it funds a wide array of additional activities. TANF was created in the 1996 welfare reform law (P.L. 104-193). TANF funding and program authority were extended through FY2010 by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA, P.L. 109-171). TANF provides a basic block grant of $16.5 billion to the 50 states and District of Columbia, and $0.1 billion to U.S. territories. Additionally, 17 states qualify for supplemental grants that total $319 million. TANF also requires states to contribute from their own funds at least $10.4 billion for benefits and services to needy families with children -- this is known as the maintenance-of-effort (MOE) requirement. States may use TANF and MOE funds in any manner "reasonably calculated" to achieve TANF's statutory purpose. This purpose is to increase state flexibility to achieve four goals: (1) provide assistance to needy families with children so that they can live in their own homes or the homes of relatives; (2) end dependence of needy parents on government benefits through work, job preparation, and marriage; (3) reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and (4) promote the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. Though TANF is a block grant, there are some strings attached to states' use of funds, particularly for families receiving "assistance" (essentially cash welfare). States must meet TANF work participation standards or be penalised by a reduction in their block grant. The law sets standards stipulating that at least 50% of all families and 90% of two-parent families must be participating, but these statutory standards are reduced for declines in the cash welfare caseload. (Some families are excluded from the participation rate calculation.) Activities creditable toward meeting these standards are focused on work or are intended to rapidly attach welfare recipients to the workforce; education and training is limited. Federal TANF funds may not be used for a family with an adult that has received assistance for 60 months. This is the five-year time limit on welfare receipt. However, up to 20% of the caseload may be extended beyond the five years for reason of "hardship", with hardship defined by the states. Additionally, states may use funds that they must spend to meet the TANF MOE to aid families beyond five years. TANF work participation rules and time limits do not apply to families receiving benefits and services not considered "assistance". Child care, transportation aid, state earned income tax credits for working families, activities to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, activities to promote marriage and two-parent families, and activities to help families that have experienced or are "at risk" of child abuse and neglect are examples of such "nonassistance".