Administration of federal assistance in the United States

“Population Research and Voluntary Family Planning Program” is the only federal program that family planning and reproductive-health services are addressed to. As a part of the Public Health Service Act, it was enacted with bi-partisan support in 1970 and signed by President Nixon (Pro-Choice America). Chief co-sponsor, George H. W. Bush, was a key advocate for this legislation (Pro-Choice America). For over 40 years, this federal policy has provided cost-effective and high quality family…

originally funding by the government as a means of assistance. Medicaid is a state and federal program that provides health coverage if you have a very low income (Crosta, p. 6). In order to qualify for Medicaid, you must be pregnant, disabled/impaired, living below the poverty line. You need to have a proper I.D or proof you are a resident of the state, you must be above the legal age of 65 sixty-five, and the participant must have a social…

Solving The Homelessness Problems? The problem of homelessness has been always a common case in all big cities everywhere. The root comes from a wide range of reasons, from social economy to personal issues, such as drug or alcohol addiction or mental state. The demographic for homelessness also vary from adults to kids due to so many reasons and occurrences in different levels. In the case of homeless children, Judy Daniels, the author of “Empowering homeless children through school…

rights and economic rights? Why has the American welfare state evolved as a pragmatic, not an ideological, solution to the pressing problem of social equity?” Social equity focus on fairness, justice, and equality usage of the community resources; Over the years the federal government has evolved into the world’s largest insurance business according to the case study, “Social Equity Through Social Insurance.” Currently, more than 60% of the federal government funds are represented by some form…

SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, is a policy that was created to provide aid to many low-income families and individuals by offering nutritional assistance. SNAP was also formerly known as food stamps and it is one of the many federal nutrition assisted programs created by the Food and Nutrition Service that is working to end national hunger and obesity. The goal of these programs are to assist families with better food security and reducing hunger by supplying them with…

Safety Net Programs Safety Net Programs are used to help protect living standards of families and individuals. These programs help people that need assistance with unemployment, income loss and poverty, physical and mental illness and disability, family disintegration, and old age. There are different types of Safety Net Programs. There is social insurance is a trust fund, where payroll tax on what an individual’s earns and receive benefits are based on what they contributed in their lifetime.…

and President Barack Obama’s actions in their terms as President are comparable, especially their trademark policies: The New Deal of 1933 and The Affordable Care Act of 2010, respectively. These policies inadvertently stretched the power of the Federal government, changing the meaning of federalism, especially in government-business relations. The New Deal encompassed innovative programs designed to address the economic crisis of the Great Depression and its devastating impacts on millions of…

Many supporters of welfare point out that the United States is lacking compared to most European nations when it comes to welfare. Most people agree that the United States is far superior to most of the European nations in terms of economy and technology: however, they also agree that it is unacceptable that the leader of the free world falls behind many countries in providing a better social welfare system. For example, Sweden has government sponsored education, healthcare, and an amount of…

is poured into the welfare system. The United States’ welfare policy needs to be reformed back to a hand up rather than the hand out it’s become. The current policies drain the economy. Compared to the rest of the world, the United States recent reforms are not up to the standard they should be for such a world power. On top of those things, the system is easily abused; costing money and resources in other areas as well as welfare directly. The United States of America’s economy has been…

Medicaid Services in healthcare and to provide insight on the socioeconomic drivers. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services a Division of Health and Human Services and previously known as the Health Care Financing Administration was established to oversee the administration of several health care programs which include Medicare, Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Clinical Laboratory Improvement…