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- The Supplemental Poverty Measure: Its Core Concepts, Development, and Use
- This report describes the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM), how it was developed, how it differs from the official poverty measure, and the insights it can offer.
- Child Welfare: Oversight of Psychotropic Medication for Children in Foster Care
- This report provides an oversight of Psychotropic medication for children in Foster Care.
- LIHEAP: Program and Funding
- This report discusses two types of formulas used to allocate funding to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) through regular and contingency funding.
- Federal Minimum Wage, Tax-Transfer Earnings Supplements, and Poverty
- This report focuses on the impact of minimum wage and tax-transfer earnings supplements for workers of different family types.
- Horse Slaughter Prevention Bills and Issues
- This report is about the issues and bill on horse slaughter prevention.
- The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA): A Legal Overview.
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- Child Welfare: Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Benefits for Children in Foster Care
- This report begins with a discussion of the foster care system and the Social Security benefits available to eligible children, including those in foster care. It then describes the role of representative payees and their responsibilities. The report provides data on the use of Social Security benefits to reimburse states for child welfare, and includes a discussion of the Keffeler decision. Finally, the report concludes with proposals supported by some advocates to change the current practice of using SSI and other Social Security benefits to fund foster care.
- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant: An Introduction
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant: An Introduction
- This report provides a nontechnical introduction to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant.
- Child Welfare: Enactment of the Child and Family Services Improvement Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-288)
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- Budget Reconciliation FY2006: Provisions Affecting the Medicaid Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP)
- The federal medical assistance percentage (FMAP) is the rate at which states are reimbursed for most Medicaid service expenditures. The FY2006 budget reconciliation bills passed by the House (H.R. 4241) and Senate (S. 1932) include provisions that would affect state FMAPs for Medicaid in a number of ways. This report describes these provisions and estimates their impact on FY2006 FMAPs.
- 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.
- Education for the Disadvantaged: Overview of ESEA Title 1-A Amendments Under the No Child Left Behind Act
- Title I, Part A, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) authorizes federal aid to local educational agencies (LEAs) for the education of disadvantaged children. Title I-A grants provide supplementary educational and related services to low-achieving and other pupils attending schools with relatively high concentrations of pupils from low-income families in pre-kindergarten through grade 12. Title I-A is the largest federal elementary and secondary education assistance program, with services provided to (a) over 90% of all LEAs; (b) approximately 45,000 (58% of all) public schools; and (c) approximately 11 million (22% of all) pupils, including approximately 167,000 pupils attending private schools. Four-fifths of all pupils served are in pre-kindergarten through grade 6, while only 5% of pupils served are in grades 10-12.
- Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview
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- Indian Tribes and Welfare Reform
- This report provides an overview of the Indian tribes and welfare reform.
- Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP): Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
- This report is intended to provide an overview of the Adequate Yearly Process (AYP) concept and several related issues, a description of the AYP provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, and an analysis of the implementation of these provisions by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the states. It will be updated when major administrative actions are taken by ED, or substantial new data on state implementation become available.
- Child Care and Child Welfare: Background Checks
- This report discusses the details related to background checks to help ensure the safety of children served through their organizations.
- Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview
- On July 22, as preparations continued for Senate Finance markup of a bill to reauthorize TANF, a bipartisan bill was introduced by Democratic former governors from Delaware and Nebraska and a Maine Republican. S.1443 would boost mandatory child care funding by $5.5 billion over 5 years and provide numerous special grants. It would increase work participation standards and lengthen the TANF work week (to 32 hours) for those without a child under 6, but give prorated credit for part-time work. On June 30, the scheduled expiration date of TANF, the President signed a bill that extended TANF, supplemental TANF grants, mandatory child care, abstinence education, and transitional medical assistance (TMA), on FY2002 terms, through September 30, 2003 (P.L. 108-40). These programs have operated under temporary authority since October 1, 2002.
- SSI Income and Resource Limits: A Fact Sheet
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- Selected Federal Programs in Which Non-Public Elementary and Secondary Schools and Children May Participate
- This report discusses federal educational and nutritional assistance programs available to children attending private schools.