Author: United States. Congress. House. Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Legislative History, Ninetieth Congress ... October 1968
Author: United States. Congress. House. Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1324
Book Description
Cumulative Index of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character).
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 724
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Public Works
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public WorksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 1088
Book Description
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Government Operations
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Cumulative Index of Congressional Committee Hearings (not Confidential in Character).
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Legislative hearings
Languages : en
Pages : 718
Book Description
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant
Author: Gene FalkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
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".
Legal Compilation; Statutes and Legislative History, Executive Orders, Regulations, Guidelines and Reports
Author: The National Environmental Policy Act
Author: Lynton Keith CaldwellPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253028469
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
"The National Environmental Policy Act has grown more, not less, important in the decades since its enactment. No one knows more about NEPA than Lynton Caldwell. And no one has a clearer vision of its relevance to our future. Highly recommended." —David W. Orr, Oberlin College What has been achieved since the National Environmental Policy Act was passed in 1969? This book points out where and how NEPA has affected national environmental policy and where and why its intent has been frustrated. The roles of Congress, the President, and the courts in the implementation of NEPA are analyzed. Professor Caldwell also looks at the conflicted state of public opinion regarding the environment and conjectures as to what must be done in order to develop a coherent and sustained policy.
Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Education and Labor
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and LaborPublisher:
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Category : Educational law and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1124
Book Description