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The result was Senate Bill 5596, a Medicaid block-grant bill.
Liberal Washington State Tries to Kiss Medicaid Goodbye Nansen Malin 2011
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The governor and the legislature unanimously back a block-grant model similar to welfare reform.
Liberal Washington State Tries to Kiss Medicaid Goodbye Nansen Malin 2011
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The president's budget also proposes a $350 million, or 50 percent, cut in a similar but smaller block-grant program aimed at human services.
Block grants could face major cuts as federal funds to fight poverty tighten 2011
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In a block-grant system, the federal government would stop paying those costs.
Handicapping a 'grand bargain' Ezra Klein 2011
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Jones, the UPO's president and chief executive, said that his organization receives $10 million in human services block-grant funding and that a 50 percent cut would affect many of the services the UPO and its partners provide, from literacy coaching to health care for the homeless.
Block grants could face major cuts as federal funds to fight poverty tighten 2011
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Such a reduction could affect groups such as the United Planning Organization, the District's designated recipient of human services block-grant money.
Block grants could face major cuts as federal funds to fight poverty tighten 2011
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White House budget director Jacob Lew said in a New York Times op-ed Sunday that Obama would propose cleaving block-grant allocations to $350 million from $700 million.
Obama's Big Budget Cut Proposals Target The Poor Arthur Delaney 2011
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White House budget director Jacob Lew said in a New York Times op-ed Sunday that Obama would propose cleaving block-grant allocations to $350 million from $700 million.
Obama's Big Budget Cut Proposals Target The Poor Arthur Delaney 2011
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White House budget director Jacob Lew said in a New York Times op-ed Sunday that Obama would propose cleaving block-grant allocations to $350 million from $700 million.
Obama's Big Budget Cut Proposals Target The Poor Arthur Delaney 2011
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In its place, he proposes a plan with two central provisions:• Convert Medicaid into a block-grant program for states to provide health coverage for the poor, disabled and uninsured.
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