Federal Emergency Relief Administration

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…

The blizzard demolished peoples homes from frozen trees and high winds, power lines tore town from tons of frozen rain, hail destroyed cars and windows citywide. The storm destroyed city generators and left people without hope. The Salvation Army Emergency Disaster Services are the first ones to help a city in need. the most visible Salvation…

people living in the Great Plains, for the “Dust Bowl” of 1941 had to have taken from the people whatever the Great Depression did not. Many of the programs and policies of the “New Deal”, implemented by Roosevelt, did have an impact in bringing some relief to the American people, as they did create new jobs, however, unemployment still remained high and hardships continued. What truly brought America out the Great Depression and out of its hopeless economic state was World War II. With the…

If a state chooses to not accept the federal funds for these purposes, it does not have to implement the act. These grants are managed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). HUD requires that communities submit a single application to be considered for the federal funding coming from the McKinney -Vento Homeless Assistance Grants. HUD allocates the grants to Continuums of Care (CoCs). According…

grown so large since the Roosevelt administration. The Roosevelt administration created the New Deal, which promised economic relief through the reform of “industries, agriculture, finance, waterpower labour, and housing” (New Deal). The New Deal greatly increased government welfare, and government interference during the activity of the every day citizen. Inherent powers are not specified in the Constitution but they are implied within times of war or national emergency. During the Civil War…

Disaster Serious emergencies, disasters and crises have become increasingly frequent in the recent years. In the past several decades, natural and man-made disasters have taken over 3 million innocent lives and badly affected millions more. When a disaster strikes, many lives may be saved by emergency crisis response. In fact, mass-casualty incident and disaster response is considered to be one of the biggest challenges for an emergency response system of every community. In fact, emergency…

1. US cultural clash 1920 One of the cultural clashes during this period was on prohibition, where there was an effort to ban the consumption of alcohol. A constitutional amendment was passed that banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages. This caused a major clash between those who favored the move and those who wanted it repealed. Protestant religious groups and other fundamentalists highly favored the move as they saw alcohol as a contributor to social evil.…

Public welfare means literally “to go well with the people.” It embraces the public welfare programs of federal, state, and local governments, the broad purpose of which, through the prevention and relief of suffering caused by social and economic inequalities and maladjustments, is to provide a better way of life for all people. Definitions, however, are at best only a guide—it is their use and application that determine their true meaning (Dunn, 1941). Loula Dunn devoted her life and…

were all banks were closed from Match 6 to March 10. Two days after taking his presidency oath, Roosevelt had declared his bank holiday and had halted all banking transactions across the nation. During this bank holiday, Roosevelt presented his Emergency Banking Act to Congress. This act empowered the president through the Treasury Department to reopen banks that were solvent and assist those that were not. The House and the Senate passed the law with overwhelming support from both…

Million s unemployed, millions starving, millions without homes. Can one man’s ideas bring it all to an end? Franklin Delano Roosevelt sure tried to. By deploying numerous programs to help counter different parts of the crisis, FDR slowly turned the country around. In a time of great need, FDR stepped up to the plate and through experimentation, brilliance, and strategy; he ultimately saved the United States of America by delaying the Great Depression and turning the tides. In 1928, Herbert…