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Social Services Block Grant: (Title XX of the Social Security Act)

Description: The FY2008 Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 110-161) maintains SSBG funding at $1.7 billion and maintains states' authority to transfer up to 10% of their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grants to the SSBG. The $1.7 billion in regular funds mirrors funding included in both the FY2007 and FY2006 laws, but exceeds the $1.2 billion that the President proposed for FY2008, and most recently, for FY2009. The FY2009 budget also includes a proposal to eliminate the SSBG in FY2… more
Date: June 23, 2008
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Services Block Grant (Title XX of the Social Security Act)

Description: The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) is a flexible source of funds that states may use to support a wide variety of social services activities. States have broad discretion over the use of these funds. This short report provides background information on the SSBG and tracks relevant legislation and appropriations measures.
Date: July 3, 2002
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Child Care Reauthorization: A Side-by-Side Comparison of Child Care Provisions in House and Senate Versions of H.R. 4, S. 880, and Current Law

Description: This report discuses the legislative action to reauthorize child care legislation that expired at the end of FY2002. The Child care reauthorization” is composed of two parts: legislation to reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act and legislation to extend mandatory funding appropriated under Section 418 of the Social Security Act.
Date: January 3, 2005
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Services Block Grant (Title XX of the Social Security Act)

Description: The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) is a flexible source of funds that states may use to support a wide variety of social services activities. States have broad discretion over the use of these funds. This short report provides background information on the SSBG and tracks relevant legislation and appropriations measures.
Date: November 4, 2002
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Services Block Grant (Title XX of the Social Security Act)

Description: This short report provides background information on the SSBG and tracks relevant legislation and appropriations measures. The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) is a flexible source of funds that states may use to support a wide variety of social services activities. States have broad discretion over the use of these funds.
Date: September 9, 2002
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Child Care Issues in the 109th Congress

Description: Federal support for child care comes in many forms, ranging from grant programs to tax provisions. Some programs serve as specifically dedicated funding sources for child care services (e.g., the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG)), while for others (e.g., Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)), child care is just one of many purposes for which funds may be used. This report discusses budget proposals in areas related to child care and early childhood development in the 10… more
Date: August 2, 2005
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Child Care Issues in the 109th Congress

Description: This report discusses the federal support for child care in several forms, ranging from grant programs to tax provisions. It also points out the federal child care-related programs and tax provisions.
Date: January 9, 2007
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Social Services Block Grant (Title XX of the Social Security Act)

Description: The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) is a flexible source of funds that states may use to support a wide variety of social services activities. States have broad discretion over the use of these funds. This short report provides background information on the SSBG and tracks relevant legislation and appropriations measures.
Date: April 28, 2003
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Head Start: Background and Issues

Description: This report discusses the federal "Head Start" program that has provided comprehensive early childhood development services to low-income children since 1965. The Head Start program has received increases of varying levels over the past two decades.
Date: February 15, 2005
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Child Care Issues in the 108th Congress

Description: This report discusses the FY2003 Appropriations, FY2004: Comparing President Bush's Budget Proposals to the final Appropriations levels, President Bush's FY2005 Budget Request and Hearings.
Date: July 20, 2004
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Head Start: Background and Issues

Description: This report provides background and issues of Head Start, a federal program that has provided comprehensive early childhood development services to low-income children since 1965.
Date: January 9, 2006
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Child Care Issues in the 109th Congress

Description: This report discusses how the federal support for child care comes in many forms, ranging from grant programs to tax provisions. It also points out how some programs serve as specifically dedicated funding sources for child care services, while for others, child care is just one of many purposes for which funds may be used.
Date: March 9, 2006
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Head Start: Background and Issues

Description: This report describes Background and Issues on Head Start. Program performance, fiscal management, and the long-term impact on children particularly with respect to educational attainment continue to be areas of focus and concern.
Date: July 26, 2007
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Head Start: Background and Issues

Description: This report describes Background and Issues on Head Start. Program performance, fiscal management, and the long-term impact on children particularly with respect to educational attainment continue to be areas of focus and concern.
Date: June 7, 2005
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Head Start: Background and Issues

Description: This report describes Background and Issues on Head Start. Program performance, fiscal management, and the long-term impact on children particularly with respect to educational attainment continue to be areas of focus and concern.
Date: February 23, 2006
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Head Start: Background and Issues

Description: Head Start is a federal program that has provided comprehensive early childhood development services to low-income children since 1965. Services provided to preschool-aged children include child development, educational, health, nutritional, social and other activities, intended to prepare low-income children for entering kindergarten. This report provides an overview of Head Start, along with a list of its issues.
Date: June 20, 2007
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Venezuela: Political Conditions and U.S. Policy

Description: The Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) is a flexible source of funds that states may use to support a wide variety of social services activities. States have broad discretion over the use of these funds. This short report provides background information on the SSBG and tracks relevant legislation and appropriations measures.
Date: September 23, 2005
Creator: Gish, Melinda
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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