Word: blocks
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...Hoping to provide a nudge to budget negotiations stalled over the future of Medicaid and the federal welfare program, the National Governors Association Tuesday recommended changes in both programs. The proposals are designed to define a middle ground between Congressional Republicans, who would simply fund the programs through block grants to states, and Democrats who want to maintain the federal-state partnership. Under the governors plan, Medicaid funding to states would be based on actual need, but any state could tap into a federal emergency fund whenever it needed extra help. The governors also proposed a welfare plan that would...
...care about people," he said. Last week Lamar Alexander visited a teen drug-treatment center in Hampton, New Hampshire, and talked poignantly about the need for neighborhood charity. A campaign ad for Senator Dick Lugar touts the fact that he fought against turning the federal school-lunch program into block grants. Even Gramm has modulated his granite-hearted talk about tossing people off the welfare wagon; now he says we need to feel sympathy for those riding in the cart as well for those pulling...
Republican leaders switched directions and agreed to compromise on the budget. Congress averted a third federal closure by adopting a measure that provides reduced funds for agencies through March 15. The G.O.P. leaders also said they would drop their threat to block the raising of the nation's debt ceiling and work instead to hammer out cuts both they and the President can accept...
...concerns than ever before. We've made security and campus safety a priority by subsidizing the Harvard University Police Department's Rape Aggression Defense program and bringing Model Mugging seminars to campus. We've shown our committment to House Committees and their unique role on campus by allocating unrestricted block grants to each house...
...Radcliffe administration is currently investigating ways to keep offering the services which are now on the chopping block...