Administration of federal assistance in the United States

The federal government has over time become strict on the regulation of food and food safety. With that being said, this is an improvement on how these agencies or departments are improving our everyday lives. The Food and Drug Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention all take part within food regulation and food safety. Each of these departments and agencies of food regulation and food safety each take part…

Introduction Administrative Law encompasses laws and legal principles that govern the administration and regulation of federal government agencies. Such agencies are delegated certain power by Congress to act as agents for the executive . For example, according to 38 U.S. Code § 301 the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is an executive department of the United States that holds the power to administer laws that provide benefits and other services to veterans and their beneficiaries . The goal…

In a federal system like America where there three levels of government, the major problem is coordination of government agencies which manifests largely during crisis like Katrina or the Boston Marathon bombing. These two crises differed in terms of response rate, coordination of concerned government agencies and Katrina was used as a lesson for future crises. The United States creates more government agencies to respond to the demand of a growing population. However, the government…

government assistance. Hoover followed his conservative approach and chose to do little or nothing about the depression, thinking that it will end eventually.…

In the United States, the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn, began on October 29th, 1929. This downturn would later be known as the Great Depression in which the American stock market, which had been seeing a decade of upward growth, crashed and plunged the United States into its severest economic downturn yet. Through the Great Depression, 1932 was one of the worst years in which it was reported that at least a quarter of once working Americans were now unemployed. In 1933 when…

I. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a cash assistance program designed to assist the disabled, blind, and elderly who have little income. Prior to the development of SSI, the Social Security Act, which was established in 1935, had a few programs that had provided assistance to the elderly and blind individuals. These programs had mainly been administered by state and local governments, with minor assistance from the federal government. Throughout the years, problems arose as the…

Analysis of The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 Overview of the Act The McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 was created with the intent to ameliorate homelessness and address it as a national problem in need of federal response. The need for this extensive law arose out of increased demand for recognition of widespread and increasing homelessness as well as an acknowledgment that the causes of homelessness are many…

change groups lead to criminal justice and other government entities to focus and study the concerns and experiences of victims and even witnesses. In 1975 the national organization for crime victim assistance was founded, and through their leadership, the criminal justice system began creating victim assistance programs,…

In the presidential election of 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt beat Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory across the Southern and Northern states. Roosevelt promised the American people hope in a time of economic disaster; "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." (Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal-The Library of Congress.) The outcome of this promise included an end to the Great depression and a forever changed America. Unlike his opponent in the election…

A federal grant is monetary funding awarded by the United States Federal Government to a recipient for humanitarian purposes or for the good of the general population. Federal Grants have specific guidelines and failure to follow these mandated guidelines can lead to severe legal impact for the recipient. These grants are awarded to state and county governments or to not for profit organizations. Individuals and businesses do not qualify for federal grants directly. These grants are…