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- Child Nutrition Issues in the 105th Congress
- This report covers proposed and enacted legislative initiatives to change child nutrition programs (including the WIC program) during 1997 and 1998.
- Child Nutrition and WIC Programs: Background and Funding
- Federally supported child nutrition programs and related activities — including school meal programs and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (the WIC program) — reach over 37 million children and almost 2 million lower-income pregnant/postpartum women. In FY2004, anticipated spending on these programs is $16.6 billion, and the FY2004 appropriations law (P.L. 108-199) supports this spending level (although with new appropriations of a lesser amount, some $16 billion). The Administration’s FY2005 revised budget request envisions spending a total of $17.15 billion, supported by new appropriations of $16.47 billion. The House FY2005 appropriations bill (H.R. 4766) would support spending of $16.97 billion with new appropriations of $16.29 billion.
- The Child Care and Development Block Grant: Background and Funding
- This report discusses the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG), which provides subsidies to assist low-income families in obtaining child care so that parents can work or participate in education or training activities.
- The Child Care and Development Block Grant: Background and Funding
- This report discusses several federal programs support child care for low-income families, the principal being a federal block grant program: The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG). The CCDBG is administered by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and provides allotments to states, according to a formula, which are used to subsidize the child care expenses of low-income families with children under age 13.
- Western Sahara: Status of Settlement Efforts
- In the 1970s, Morrocco and independence-seeking popular front for the liberation of the saqiat .UN arranged a cease-fire and proposed a settlement. This report is regarding the proposal and settlement .
- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Its Role In Response to the Effects of Hurricane Katrina
- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant provides grants to states to help them fund a wide variety of benefits and services to low-income families with children. TANF is best known as helping fund ongoing cash welfare benefits for families with children, but the block grant may also fund other benefits and services such as emergency payments, child care.
- Welfare Reform: Selected References, 1977-1978
- This report is an annotated bibliography of published works on welfare reform from the years 1977 through 1978
- Housing Assistance and Welfare: Background and Issues
- This paper will introduce the reader to federal housing assistance and welfare programs, the people they serve, how the programs interact and current issues.
- Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview
- The House passed a bill (H.R. 3146) on September 24 to extend TAIF, mandatory child care, abstinence education, and transitional Medicaid, on current terms, through March 31, 2004. In the absence of legislation these programs would expire on September 30. The Senate Finance Committee approved a comprehensive TAIF preauthorization proposal of Chairman Chuck Grassley on September 10. Entitled Personal Responsibility and Individual Development for Everyone (PRIDE), the legislation would extend TANF, mandatory child care, abstinence education, and transitional Medicaid for 5 years, FY2004 through FY2008. It would raise TANF work participation standards, increase weekly work hours, add new countable work activities,
- Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview
- The House passed a bill (H.R. 3146) on September 24 to extend TAIF, mandatory child care, abstinence education, and transitional Medicaid, on current terms, through March 31, 2004. In the absence of legislation, these programs would expire on September 30. The Senate Finance Committee approved a comprehensive TAIF preauthorization proposal of Chairman Chuck Grassley on September 10. Entitled Personal Responsibility and Individual Development for Everyone (PRIDE), the legislation would extend TANF, mandatory child care, abstinence education, and transitional Medicaid for 5 years, FY2004 through FY2008. It would raise TANF work participation standards, increase weekly work hours, add new countable work activities,
- Poverty: Trends, Causes and Cures
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- The Animal Welfare Act: Background and Selected Legislation
- The Animal Welfare Act was first passed in 1966 to prevent pets from being stolen for sale to research laboratories, and to improve the treatment and wellbeing of animals intended for research. The passage in 2007 of legislation on animal fighting marked the sixth time Congress has amended the act to strengthen enforcement, expand coverage to more animals and activities, or curtail practices viewed as cruel, among other things. The Animal Welfare Act amendments in the 2008 farm bill band the importation of puppies under six months of age for resale, tighten prohibitions of dog and other animal fighting activities, and increase penalties for violation of the act.
- The Runaway and Homeless Youth Program: Administration, Funding, and Legislative Actions
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- The Runaway and Homeless Youth Program: Administration, Funding, and Legislative Actions
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- Welfare Reauthorization: Overview of the Issues
- In 2003, 12.3 million children lived in families with incomes below the poverty line (a 17.2% child poverty rate). Research has shown that poverty can have negative consequences on a child’s development. Children depend upon their parents for support, and most of the recent policy attention has focused on initiatives to move poor parents (mostly single mothers) from welfare to work and on reducing welfare dependency.
- Trends in Poverty in the United States
- This report discusses trends in poverty in the United States. In 2004, 37 million people were found poor under the official poverty definition — a 1.1 million increase from 2003. The poverty rate, or percent of the population considered poor, increased for the fourth straight year, to 12.7% in 2004 — up from 12.5% in 2003, and 11.3% in 2000, its most recent low.
- Child Welfare: Implementation of the Adoption and Safe Families Act
- This report provides an overview of the implementation of adoption and safe families act on child welfare.
- Federal Benefits and Services for People with Low Income: Programs and Spending, FY2008-FY2013
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- Child Welfare: The Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CFCIP)
- This report briefly describes the CFCIP and will be updated as significant legislative developments occur.
- Child Welfare: Structure and Funding of the Adoption Incentives Program along with Reauthorization Issues
- This report addresses structure and funding of the Adoption Incentives Program along with re-authorization issues regarding Child Welfare.
- Federal Benefits and Services for People with Low Income: Programs, Policy, and Spending, FY2008-FY2009
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- Child Welfare: Recent and Proposed Federal Funding
- This report contains the recent and proposed federal funding for child welfare.
- Child Welfare: Recently Enacted Changes in Federal Policy
- This report summarizes changes enacted in federal child welfare policy during the 109th Congress.
- The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): A Legal Overview.
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- Child Custody Proceedings Under The Indian Child Welfare Act: An Overview
- This report provides an overview of some of the goals and provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
- Child Welfare: The Adoption Incentives Program
- This report provides background information and a description of the Adoption Incentives program, with references to recent legislative action, sizes of incentive payments earned, and adoption trends.
- Child Support Enforcement Program Incentive Payments: Background and Policy Issues
- This report describes the current CSE incentive payment system, explains how state incentive payments are derived, presents some of the state trends, and discusses some issues.
- Child Support Enforcement: New Reforms and Potential Issues
- This report contains the new reforms and potential issues of child support enforcement.
- H.R. 1--Welfare Reform Provisions (A Selection of Statements and Articles)
- This report discusses welfare reform provisions in H.R. 1 and provides materials discussing various opinions and analyses of the proposals published in newspapers and magazines.
- The Homeless: Overview of the Problem and the Federal Response
- This report discusses the problem of homelessness in the U.S. and the resulting policy response. Unlike the skid row "derelicts" who comprised the typical homeless population of the 1960s, today's street people represent many diverse groups including: the mentally ill, evicted families, the aged, alcoholics, drug addicts, abused spouses, abused young people, and cast-off children.
- Alien Eligibility for Public Assistance
- This report discusses how The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 has affected alien (illegal immigrants and nonimmigrants in the country) eligibility for federal, state, and local government assistance.
- The Section 8 Housing Voucher Program: Reform Proposals
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- The Section 8 Housing Voucher Program: Reform Proposals
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- Cash and Non-Cash Benefits for Persons with Limited Income: Eligibility Rules, Recipient and Expenditure Data, FY1981-83
- This report summarizes basic eligibility rules, as of May 1984, for more than 70 cash and non-cash programs that benefit primarily persons of limited income. It also gives funding formulas, benefit levels, and, for fiscal years 1981-1983, recipient numbers and expenditure data for each program.
- Contractor Fraud Against the Federal Government: Selected Federal Civil Remedies
- This report provides an overview of federal statutes that provide civil remedies for contractor fraud, as well as issues stemming from judicial interpretation of these statutes.
- The Child Support Enforcement Program: A Fact Sheet
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- Medicaid Citizenship Documentation
- Due to recent changes in federal law, individuals who declare that they are citizens for Medicaid eligibility purposes must present documentation that proves citizenship and documents personal identity. This report discusses issues related to Medicaid citizenship documentation that have received considerable media and interest group attention, as well as proposed legislation that would affect the requirement.
- The ACA Medicaid Expansion
- This report provides an overview of the ACA Medicaid expansion, and the impact of the Supreme Court decision on the ACA Medicaid expansion. Then, the report describes who is covered under the expansion, the expansion rules, and how the expansion is financed. In addition, enrollment and expenditure estimates for the ACA Medicaid expansion are provided. Finally, the report reviews state decisions whether or not to implement the ACA Medicaid expansion, and the implications of those decisions on certain individuals, employers, and hospitals.
- Medicaid Issues for the 109th Congress
- Medicaid is jointly financed by the federal and state governments, but each state designs and administers its own state program under broad federal guidelines. Accordingly, state variation in eligibility, covered services, and the delivery of, and reimbursement for, services is the rule rather than the exception. How is Congress to respond to the numerous proposals to move Medicaid forward into the near and long term? This report lays out some of these issues, explains the factors underlying them, and provides links to CRS products that can help Members of Congress and their staff prepare to discuss Medicaid’s role today and into the future.
- Welfare Reform: Comments from the Public on TANF Reauthorization
- This report presents a summary of the comments that were received by HHS in response to the Department's request, and is intended to convey a general sense of the views and opinions expressed. The report begins with an explanation of the methodology used for preparing this summary and a discussion of the categories of groups and individuals who submitted comments.
- Child Welfare: Profiles of Current and Former Older Foster Youth Based on the National Youth in Transition Database (NYTD)
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- Poverty: Major Themes in Past Debates and Current Proposals
- This report begins with an overview of trends affecting both the incidence of poverty and characteristics of the population, and highlights changing perceptions of the poor and causes of poverty. The report then provides a short history of key federal policies enacted over the past century to address poverty. To provide a framework for analyzing current and future proposals, the report then presents several overarching themes that have recurred in poverty policy debates over the course of this history.
- Child Welfare Funding in Brief: Fiscal Year 2017 Final Funding and the President's Fiscal Year 2018 Request.
- This report discusses the 2017 fiscal year appropriations received for child welfare programs and the fiscal year 2018 budge request for the same.
- Constitutional Rights Of Children: An Overview
- This report consists of constitutional rights of children.
- Summary of Legislative Activity Related to Family Welfare Programs in the 91st and 92nd Congresses
- This report is a chronological summary of major legislative activity during the 91st and 92nd Congress concerning family welfare and family assistance programs.
- Child Welfare: Program Reauthorizations and Recent and FY2006 Proposed Funding Levels
- This report discusses current funding levels for child welfare programs, intended to protect children from abuse and neglect and to ensure their well-being. In FY2005 the federal government appropriated $7.8 billion for these purposes. Most of this funding is made available to states through open-ended entitlement programs or as formula grants and is authorized under Title IV-E and Title IV-B of the Social Security Act or under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act (CAPTA).
- Child Well-Being and Noncustodial Fathers
- This report displays and discusses some of the data related to the poverty of children and their living arrangements and data on male employment and earnings, educational attainment, and incarceration. It then provides information on federal programs that could play a greater role in addressing poverty of children through the fathers of these children (nearly all noncustodial parents are fathers). The report also examines federal programs that have the purposes of preventing teen pregnancy and helping disadvantaged youth obtain the skills and support they need to make the transition to adulthood. The report concludes by presenting several public policy approaches proposed by the policy community that might improve the lives of low-income noncustodial fathers and their children.
- Child Support: Changes Enacted or Proposed in the 103rd Congress
- No Description Available.
- Child Welfare: Enactment of the Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-288)
- No Description Available.
- Child Welfare: Programs Authorized by the Victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990
- This report presents the programs authorized by the victims of Child Abuse Act of 1990 regarding Child Welfare.