• Charlotte, N.C. - PETA has reviewed damning North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (NCDA&CS) records from between June 2018 and February 2020 that reveal that 20 PetSmart stores in the state- including one in Charlotte -were ordered to improve conditions for animals in order to comply with the state's Animal Welfare Act (AWA). (peta.org)
  • The federal government (Children's Bureau of the Administration for Children and Families) requires each state's child welfare agency to create a five-year Child and Family Services Plan (CFSP). (oregon.gov)
  • Each state has a Title IV-E State Plan that lays out the state's specific participation in IV-E programs and funding and identifies the state laws and regulations that have been enacted to comply with federal laws and regulations associated with the funding. (oregon.gov)
  • That's a lot of wisdom packed into a few pithy sentences, but the welfare state's track record has always been a far cry from its promises. (fee.org)
  • Statutory definitions across the States generally describe specific conduct or acts that are subject to civil and criminal actions, and the specific language used may vary depending on whether the definition is found in the civil or criminal sections of the State's code. (childwelfare.gov)
  • Instead, states need to spend on TANF recipients, at least 75% of what they spent the previous year on the AFDC (Marx). (ipl.org)
  • The money that was poured into the new program by the federal government was given to the state, not the recipients directly. (ipl.org)
  • One significant change from the old 'welfare ' system is that TANF recipients must participate in work activities in or to receive benefits. (ipl.org)
  • They were even perhaps willing to tolerate some short-term sacrifice of income among would-be welfare recipients if that was the price of a long-term cultural transformation. (brookings.edu)
  • Gov. Paul LePage wants to limit state welfare benefits to only those residents living in Maine legally, a move that could force municipalities to drop some recipients or risk losing government funds. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Under normal circumstances, states periodically redetermine Medicaid recipients' eligibility to account for changed circumstances such as new employment, altered family status and increased income. (cei.org)
  • States will have ample time to complete the process: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has advised them they'll have 14 months after the emergency ends to process ineligible recipients, with no consequence for taking longer. (cei.org)
  • Enhance work and training for welfare recipients. (csmonitor.com)
  • Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program, which requires each state in the nation to implement their own welfare program and quickly transition welfare recipients to the work force. (cdc.gov)
  • Of particular concern was whether or not the state used cash diversion in their program, so that we could evaluate the design of questions among cash diversion recipients (Washington and North Carolina have cash diversion programs, Massachusetts does not). (cdc.gov)
  • 1SA232 Bachelor's level Social Work and Social Welfare Syllabus Full-time, Campus English Växjö 28 Aug, 2023 - 05 Nov, 2023 April 17 Some courses and programmes will accept late applications. (lnu.se)
  • Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer and Department for Children and Families Secretary Gina Meier-Hummel have announced their proposal to increase the budget on child welfare services by $16.5 million. (cwla.org)
  • In order to be eligible for payment under this subpart, a State must have a plan for child welfare services which has been developed jointly by the Secretary and the State agency designated pursuant to subsection (b)(1), and which meets the requirements of subsection (b). (cornell.edu)
  • We learn that the American welfare state is larger and more dynamic than many have believed-yet, to this day, it fails to ameliorate inequality or poverty. (princeton.edu)
  • After years of implementation, the current welfare system of the time, the AFDC, had been said to cause familial issues when it was meant to be providing aid to families in poverty. (ipl.org)
  • At this point the state would use these funds against poverty at their own discretion. (ipl.org)
  • Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers ," JCPR Working Papers 32, Northwestern University/University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research. (repec.org)
  • ACADEMIC PANEL co-sponsored by CROP at the annual meeting of the ISA Research Committee on Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19). (crop.org)
  • While these arguments are made in good faith, and with the intent of helping poor people, anarchists should be looking into the matter more deeply and coming up with critiques of state welfare and solutions to poverty more consistent with libertarian thinking, instead of falling in line behind the modern nanny state. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • While doing away entirely with government is the ultimate remedy for poverty, other measures which could be proposed and implemented under the state, such as decreased taxation to increase the wealth of the working poor, deregulation of health care to decrease health care costs, and a return to mutual aid societies in place of extortionate insurance companies, are much more in line with anarchist principles than cheerleading for AFDC. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Unlike with the AFDC, the TANF program is funded federally and the state does not have to meet the federal funds with an equal amount of their own. (ipl.org)
  • The block grant for TANF given to each state has been a fixed rate since it 's conception in 1996 so this would mean that as the years go by and inflation rises, the power behind each dollar falls (Trisi). (ipl.org)
  • TANF replaces the federal programs previously known as 'welfare, ' and enables states to offer a wide variety of social services. (ipl.org)
  • We wanted to visit different states because of the state-to-state variation in TANF programs, and we also wanted to choose states that we had not visited for the focus groups so that we would potentially encounter different issues that might be relevant for the questionnaire design. (cdc.gov)
  • Another factor was the characteristics of the states' TANF programs. (cdc.gov)
  • Enrollment has risen to unprecedented levels, due in large part to the March 2020 Families First Coronavirus Response Act's continuous-coverage requirement, which prohibits state Medicaid agencies from disenrolling ineligible beneficiaries while the public health emergency lasts. (cei.org)
  • After declining in the two years before the pandemic, Medicaid enrollment grew by an estimated 19 million (more than 26%) between February 2020 and July 2022 because states can no longer assess and remove ineligible enrollees. (cei.org)
  • 5 See https://www.who.int/about/collaborations/partnerships/en/, (accessed 9 March 2020). (who.int)
  • The British government is now trying to restrain public finances, but until massive reform of the welfare state is undertaken, these efforts are likely to be in vain. (theweek.com)
  • The dilemma that governments then face is how to achieve significant reform of the welfare state at precisely the time when more people need its help. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Alm, Erika (2021) A State Affair? (lu.se)
  • Thus, when economically disengaged beneficiaries of the welfare state are combined with these government workers, the result is politicians who have a major interest in the ballooning welfare state. (theweek.com)
  • This article reveals these vast structural inequalities and concludes by calling not only, as others have, for an increase and more progressive distribution of social welfare dollars but also, for the first time, for reforms that would address the structural inequalities at the heart of the U.S. social welfare state and that would render it more successful at supporting the autonomy and resilience of all of its beneficiaries. (ssrn.com)
  • Extending the emergency is aimed at keeping as many people as possible dependent on Medicaid - the federal-state health program that covers more than 1 in 4 Americans - even though large and growing numbers of beneficiaries are ineligible. (cei.org)
  • A welfare state is a form of government in which the state (or a well-established network of social institutions) protects and promotes the economic and social well-being of its citizens, based upon the principles of equal opportunity, equitable distribution of wealth, and public responsibility for citizens unable to avail themselves of the minimal provisions for a good life. (wikipedia.org)
  • Early features of the welfare state, such as public pensions and social insurance, developed from the 1880s onwards in industrializing Western countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • The German term sozialstaat ("social state") has been used since 1870 to describe state support programs devised by German sozialpolitiker ("social politicians") and implemented as part of Otto von Bismarck's conservative reforms. (wikipedia.org)
  • The literal English equivalent "social state" did not catch on in Anglophone countries. (wikipedia.org)
  • In establishing a governing premise that removes consequential risk from calculations of conduct, welfare states weaken the incentives for initiative and sacrifice the social benefits that are born of personal responsibility. (theweek.com)
  • The tragedy of this absurdity is not just its drain on taxpayers, but also the welfare system's willful destruction of social mobility. (theweek.com)
  • The Welfare State Nobody Knows challenges a number of myths and half-truths about U.S. social policy. (princeton.edu)
  • One important reason is that the United States is adept at creating social programs that benefit the middle and upper-middle classes, but less successful in creating programs for those who need the most help. (princeton.edu)
  • This book is unusually broad in scope, analyzing the politics of social programs that are well known (such as Social Security and welfare) and less well known but still important (such as workers' compensation, home mortgage interest deduction, and the Americans with Disabilities Act). (princeton.edu)
  • In The Welfare State Nobody Knows , Christopher Howard compellingly reveals an American welfare state that is at once larger than previously acknowledged and yet incapable of solving the fundamental social problems confronting the nation. (princeton.edu)
  • The social welfare has been a debatable argument for year in the U.S, many since the people have different beliefs in the welfare policy. (ipl.org)
  • Many time being is that the federal government had chosen to stay away from social welfare while also choosing to be heavily involved with it, making the federal agencies heavily involved in policy making. (ipl.org)
  • A 'focus paper' on the evolution of social security quoted from the original Beveridge White Paper of 1942, saying: 'Social Security must be achieved by co-operation between the state and the individual. (independent.co.uk)
  • Since at least the 1970s a variety of scholars have redefined the U.S. social welfare state to include not only traditional benefit programs (for example Food Stamps and social security) but also a variety of tax benefits that are "hidden" or "submerged" forms of "welfare for the wealthy. (ssrn.com)
  • Including these benefits in the overall picture of U.S. social welfare provision reveals a system that is both larger in size than popularly believed and that, in addition to providing some support for the poor, distributes significant benefits regressively, to households with substantial wealth. (ssrn.com)
  • Although a variety of scholars and policy analysts have described these outcomes, scholars have yet to focus on the ways in which structural inequality is written directly into the means of administration of U.S. social welfare programs. (ssrn.com)
  • This article is the first to turn to those questions and to systematically demonstrate that those who are economically (and disproportionately racially) disadvantaged are offered a social welfare state that is meager, punitive and tremendously risky for those who receive its benefits. (ssrn.com)
  • Although as a formal matter the rich, like the poor, have no right to economic support in the Constitutional sense, American social welfare policy moves the rich remarkably close to a right to economic support, leaving the poor far behind. (ssrn.com)
  • Bach, Wendy, Poor Support/Rich Support: (Re)Viewing the American Social Welfare State (May 17, 2017). (ssrn.com)
  • Over the past decade or so, Israeli lawmakers have been slowly curtailing and revoking social benefits from (mostly poor) Palestinian families-citizens of Israel who have contributed to the system all their lives-under the pretext of national security or "loyalty" to the state. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • Title XX of the Social Security Act gives States increased flexibility to offer a wider range of services to a broader population of adults and children. (oregon.gov)
  • A BALLARAT child welfare advocate has reiterated the continuing problem with the region's child protection services.Edith Cowan University head of social justice Professor Caroline Taylor said the issue with child protection services in the state was of ongoing concern.Professor Taylor said the research she had conducted in previous years had revealed that child protection services operated in an almost constant state of crisis. (thecourier.com.au)
  • He also notes that European welfare states have shown a greater capacity for change than is often recognised, with the shift toward a system that gives priority to social investment making a real difference in several countries. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Welfare states in Europe fulfil three distinct functions and it is crucial to understand the balance between these functions in assessing their sustainability and effectiveness in dealing with social risks. (lse.ac.uk)
  • How do welfare states in different parts of the world draw on different aspects of social policy in the context of globalization? (crop.org)
  • The 2011 RC19 meeting brings together leading scholars in the field of comparative welfare state studies from different parts of the world and encompassing a wide range of disciplines, including sociology, social policy and political science, to discuss these questions. (crop.org)
  • It certainly makes sense to make the best of the existence of a welfare state and take advantage of the programs that have been instituted in response to the demands and movements of radical or progressive statists, but it is quite another thing to look to these programs as the preferred way to solve social problems. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Welfare, social security, and other government benefit schemes were created in response to social movements, not out of governmental beneficence, just as good benefits in many private corporations are the result of strong labor movements which forced the owners to reimburse the workers for a greater portion of their labor than was the case previously. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Minister of State for Social Justice Dilip Kamble told PTI that the Board will be set up in a month's time. (indiatimes.com)
  • Since welfare schemes for transgenders were implemented by Union Social Justice Ministry, all work related to setting up of the board and implementing welfare schemes for the community was transferred to the state Social Justice department on October 3, 2017, and an amount of Rs 5 crore was set aside for the purpose," he said. (indiatimes.com)
  • Using these principles, the federal government should assume greater responsibility for income support programs, where the solution to the problem of low-income Americans demands a national solution and national resources, while states should assume many of the economic development, social service, and infrastructure programs now supported at the federal level. (csmonitor.com)
  • The Evans-Robb committee suggested the states assume full financial, policy, and administrative responsibilities for a variety of community development, local infrastructure, and social-service programs - such as community development block grants, urban development grants, mass transit, and waste-water treatment programs. (csmonitor.com)
  • The aim of the course is to develop a basic understanding of the Swedish welfare state and of Swedish social policies in a historical and comparative perspective. (lnu.se)
  • The course provides an introduction into the historical genesis, the structural shape and the socioeconomic outcomes of the Swedish welfare state and of major areas of Swedish social policy. (lnu.se)
  • In the late nineteenth century, no aspiring American social scientist regarded his education as complete without a sojourn in a German university, and the impressionable young men brought back to the United States a favorable view of Bismarckian social policies absorbed from the teachings of Deutschland s state-worshipping professoriate. (independent.org)
  • The major welfare state programs include Social Assistance, the Canada Child Tax Benefit, Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement, Employment Insurance, the Canada and Quebec Pension Plan, Workers' Compensation, public education, medicare, social housing and social services. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • For Asa Briggs, the author of this definition in an article appearing in The Welfare State (1967), there are three types of welfare state activities: provision of minimum income, provision for the reduction of economic insecurity resulting from such "contingencies" as sickness, old age and unemployment, and provision to all members of society of a range of social services. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Under this definition, Canada became a welfare state after the passage of the social welfare reforms of the 1960s ( see Social Security ). (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Richard Titmuss, one of the most influential writers on the welfare state, noted in Essays on the Welfare State (1959) that the social welfare system may be larger than the welfare state, a distinction of particular importance in Canada, where the social services component of the welfare state is less well-developed. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • In addition to occupational welfare, there are a range of social welfare services provided by parapublic, trade union, church, and non-profit institutions. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • To some writers, the expansion of the welfare state is a central political focus of social democracy because of the contribution of welfare state policies and programs to the reduction of inequality, the expansion of freedom, the promotion of fellowship and democracy, and the expression of humanitarianism. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • In Canada, such a view of the welfare state appeared in the League for Social Reconstruction's Social Planning for Canada (1935) and in the reports of social reformers, such as Leonard Marsh's classic, Report on Social Security for Canada (1943), written for the wartime Advisory Committee on Reconstruction. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • Examines the relationship between law and social welfare as it impacts on human rights and social work practice. (gvsu.edu)
  • We account for the questions addressed in the anthology and its structure based on three sections that each analyses transformations of European welfare states and social rights from macro, meso and micro level perspectives, respectively. (lu.se)
  • As described in the chapter and illustrated throughout the anthology, the three levels are interlinked: Macro level welfare state transformations influence the meso level of public encounters between welfare professionals and citizens, and on micro level, these encounters have real effect for, for example, citizens' access to social rights. (lu.se)
  • Linking the levels, the anthology contributes with analytical insights into welfare state transformations and social rights. (lu.se)
  • This report describes the results of cognitive interview research on questions about welfare reform benefits which were contained in both the 1998 and 1999 March Income Supplement of the Current Population Survey (CPS). (cdc.gov)
  • By offering citizens a cradle-to-grave system of unconditional government support, welfare states disincentivize personal responsibility. (theweek.com)
  • These words were spoken by President Clinton during the signing ceremony of his passed legislature that called for a drastic reform of the welfare system. (ipl.org)
  • A package of seven welfare reform focus files yesterday described the problem with a welfare benefit system that, as the Prime Minister told the Cabinet, was no longer working. (independent.co.uk)
  • While Feiglin's party ultimately failed to win any seats in the Knesset, their efforts speak to an emerging trend on the Israeli right: using the welfare system as a mechanism for exclusion and separation among citizens. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • Once an economic system meant to protect society from the harms of the market, the welfare state is now utilized as a punitive tool to demarcate the boundaries of the polity. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • Our monthly progress reports also provide key metrics related to our work to transform Oregon's child welfare system. (oregon.gov)
  • View our dashboards for up-to-date information about the children, youth and families served by Oregon's Child Welfare system. (oregon.gov)
  • However, when there is a downturn, especially one as severe as that which hit several European countries in recent years, governments have to meet existing obligations and face new demands on the welfare system arising directly from the crisis. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Europeans have become accustomed to the idea that they should be net contributors to the welfare system during their working lifetimes, but then draw from the system in old-age through public pensions. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Second, the welfare system redistributes economic resources in various ways. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Calling for the dismantling of the welfare system for poor people may not be the best place for anarchists to start in the fight against the very existence of the state, but arguing for its continued maintenance-or even its expansion-as if this were the only way to help people in need, is not the right course of action either. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • He called his system Staatssozialismus, or "state socialism. (fee.org)
  • Orban said, on Friday, that according to estimates, Hungarian citizens working in Britain pay more into the welfare system that they take out. (euobserver.com)
  • AS we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the United States Constitution, we should use the occasion to strengthen the federal system that has been the backbone of our governmental structure and to focus on the roles federal, state, and local governments play in American society. (csmonitor.com)
  • Federalism - the system of government in which the nation's power is shared and dispersed among federal, state, and local jurisdictions - is a foundation stone of US democracy. (csmonitor.com)
  • The US welfare system is a crazy quilt of varied, often inadequate benefit levels and eligibility criteria, in which the accidents of birth or residence determine a family's level of support. (csmonitor.com)
  • The US should reform its inadequate welfare system and correct major distortions in the structure of federalism at one and the same time, for the two issues are inextricably intertwined. (csmonitor.com)
  • The welfare state in Canada is a multi-billion dollar system of government programs that transfer money and services to Canadians to deal with an array of societal needs. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • We analyzed data from the 2019 Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) linked with data from a telephone follow-up survey administered to PRAMS respondents 9 to 10 months postpartum in 7 states (N = 1,954). (cdc.gov)
  • The cognitive interview research consisted of a series of one-on-one interviews with people who had experiences with different types of welfare benefits. (cdc.gov)
  • Guiding migrant parents in Nordic Welfare States. (fafo.no)
  • The Media Welfare State: Nordic Media in the Digital Era comprehensively addresses the central dynamics of the digitalization of the media industry in the Nordic countries-Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland-and the ways media organizations there are transforming to address the new digital environment. (umich.edu)
  • The Nordic welfare state is analyzed both empirically and theoretically, with a special emphasis on the case of Sweden. (lu.se)
  • The course includes a history of the development of the Swedish welfare state and considers arguments for and against the Nordic welfare state model. (lu.se)
  • But the principles laid down by Lord Beveridge, founder of the modern Welfare State in 1948, would remain central. (independent.co.uk)
  • The modern welfare state is often seen as originating in Imperial Germany in the 1880s, when the Iron Chancellor, Prince Otto von Bismarck, established compulsory accident, sickness, and old-age insurance for workers. (independent.org)
  • As the government, at various levels, attempts to cut back on welfare and other entitlement payments to poor people and/or require people to work in exchange for their welfare benefits, anarchists in the united states have been talking and writing about what the appropriate anarchist response should be. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • Insecurity creates a sense of helplessness and entitlement was proposed as the solution…Bismarck affirmed that the state should offer the poor "a helping hand in distress….Not as alms, but as a right. (fee.org)
  • Another theme concerns the new challenges and current developments in the Swedish model and in particular areas of public welfare provision. (lnu.se)
  • Moreover, the course also focuses on cross-national variations in the welfare state, and how the Swedish case can be characterized in comparison to other capitalist industrialized countries. (lnu.se)
  • 2/4 · understand the development of the Swedish welfare state politically and economically. (lu.se)
  • Instead, Bengtsson shows, among other things, how the temperance movement's strong organisational culture and the free churches formed the basis for the Swedish welfare state in the late 1800s. (lu.se)
  • In Israel, welfare exclusion has been followed by calls to revoke citizenship, providing an alarming test case for what can be expected in other countries under far-right sway. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • The long pending Transgender Welfare Board (TWB) will finally see light of the day with the Maharashtra government making a provision of Rs 5 crore for welfare of the community. (indiatimes.com)
  • Furthermore, it allows the ACS to address the intersection of domestic violence and child welfare. (cwla.org)
  • This cross-sector seminar will address the overlaps between family law and animal welfare, including the links between animal cruelty, domestic violence, and child abuse. (dsba.org)
  • Panel 6: How Can Our Domestic Violence and Child Welfare Policies and Practices Recognize the Link? (dsba.org)
  • Attorney General Janet Mills, a Democrat, says the governor has no authority to implement the change in welfare regulations without legislative approval. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Emperor Ashoka of India put forward his idea of a welfare state in the 3rd century BCE. (wikipedia.org)
  • U.K. government expenditures have had to grow dramatically to cope with welfare demands. (theweek.com)
  • Some critics go further by arguing that the underlying reason for the crises affecting so many European countries is that public debt had been pushed upwards by the inexorable demands of the welfare state. (lse.ac.uk)
  • A number of anarchists seem to have bought the idea that since government can sometimes be more responsive to the demands of poor people than private capitalists, the state can be seen as a guardian against their depredations. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • We propose an evaluation of the impact of TRA86 on well-being using different welfare metrics which fully retain preference heterogeneity. (repec.org)
  • Ambitious and timely, The Welfare State Nobody Knows asks us to rethink the influence of political parties, interest groups, public opinion, federalism, policy design, and race on the American welfare state. (princeton.edu)
  • The issue of setting up such a board for implementing welfare schemes for transgenders and protecting their rights was mentioned in the third women's policy of the state government, accepted by the cabinet in 2013. (indiatimes.com)
  • The policy promised various welfare measures for working women in the state. (indiatimes.com)
  • This brief from Corporation for Supportive Housing provides a summary of important steps state policy leaders and communities can take to optimize the Family First Prevention Services Act and Five-Year State Plan to keep families facing homelessness together and housed through practices, legislation, and budgetary measures where supportive housing is central to long-term stability and well-being. (usich.gov)
  • The European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies continues to serve as a knowledge broker - generating and diffusing evidence to meet Member States' policy needs so that decision-makers can take better-informed choices. (who.int)
  • Ultimately, welfare states actually don't help people in need. (theweek.com)
  • In the great depression 1930's the local and state government provided support for the poor, many assistances coming from churches were people would receive free food and agencies supplying the size of aid available to them. (ipl.org)
  • By Jameel Hampton Beginning with the recognition of the special needs of disabled schoolchildren in the 1880s, the British state took on the welfare of groups of disabled people perceived to be deserving of statutory welfare. (activehistory.ca)
  • Some have come to the position that anarchists should support state welfare for poor people and actively oppose cutbacks, arguing that poor people deserve state assistance since they are the victims of capitalist economic relations, that capitalist corporations are a greater threat to poor and working people than the state, and that forcing people to work will cause even worse working conditions for many than already exist, further impoverishing people. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • At least part of the reason it is, at times, easier to squeeze concessions out of the state, is that it costs the individuals in government nothing: they will simply force working people to foot the bill for any increase in welfare benefits by increasing taxes. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • People become less charitable, figuring the State will take care of things they used to handle themselves at half the cost. (fee.org)
  • The Indian Child Welfare Act establishes adoptive placement preferences for placing an Indian child with a member of the child's extended family, other members of the child's tribe, or with other Indian families. (narf.org)
  • NARF has worked with tribes on the issue of ensuring that state courts abide by a tribe's adoptive placement preference. (narf.org)
  • Unfortunately, the ruling did not end the status of the appeal as the adoptive parents asked the court to revise its ruling in light of the United States Supreme Court's decision in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl (Baby Veronica) . (narf.org)
  • The Alaska Supreme Court ruled that, in order to be considered as an adoptive placement option for children in the custody of the state, family members, and other Native families must file formal adoption cases. (narf.org)
  • The reasoning is that, because politicians fear a backlash from voters if they try to cut welfare provisions, they are reluctant to impose cuts on welfare budgets, and are also scared of raising taxes. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Meanwhile, some politicians complain that LePage can't change welfare laws without legislative approval and that he's grandstanding during an election year. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The late political humorist Tom Anderson once said that the welfare state was so named because the politicians get well and the rest of us pay the fare . (fee.org)
  • So where did the idea come from that the State should be the national nanny, that dependence upon politicians should displace personal responsibility and private institutions? (fee.org)
  • The report (probably inadvertently) illustrates how, far from encouraging a return to the workplace, welfare states actually encourage unemployment. (theweek.com)
  • When an economy is growing, this does not matter because a strong economy means there is less demand for a number of welfare payments (such as unemployment benefit) and tax revenues are buoyant. (lse.ac.uk)
  • State-by-state variations occur in Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), medicaid, and unemployment insurance. (csmonitor.com)
  • California, for instance, leads the nation in the number of restaurants offering shark fin products-59 were found by AWI in its latest audit-despite a 2013 state law that prohibits the possession, sale, trade or distribution of shark fins. (awionline.org)
  • While the United States prohibits shark finning in federal waters, there is no nationwide ban on the sale of shark fins, fueling the global shark fin trade. (awionline.org)
  • All welfare states entail some degree of private-public partnerships wherein the administration and delivery of at least some welfare programs occur through private entities. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is a federally funded grant program that allows states to create and administer their own assistance programs for families in need. (ipl.org)
  • Child protection agencies across the United States are beginning to implement similar programs in the hope of making their work more effective. (cwla.org)
  • 24. "State Programs Funded by SSBCI" (U.S. Department of Treasury, April 2012), https://perma.cc/JTY2-8YXW . (mackinac.org)
  • On this page you can find data and federally required reports from the Oregon Department of Human Services Child Welfare Division and related programs. (oregon.gov)
  • The CFSP is directly tied to federal government funding to support Oregon Child Welfare programs. (oregon.gov)
  • By federal law, SSBG funds must be administered by the same agency that administers child welfare and foster care/adoption programs - this report describes the services funded with SSBG within ODHS. (oregon.gov)
  • But LePage, who has had family members who've relied on welfare and who has made overhauling the programs a priority since taking office, said in his radio address that 'illegal aliens who choose to live in Maine are not our most vulnerable citizens. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Massachusetts' and Washington's programs are state- based). (cdc.gov)
  • Pande 2014Pande , 2021Vij 2013), and a sub-national Right to Hearing law from the state of Rajasthan (Agrawal and Nair 2018) in state practice. (researchgate.net)
  • 37. For instance, see: William P. Ruger and Jason Sorens, "Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom" (Cato Institute, 2018), https://perma.cc/PEK4-W8RD . (mackinac.org)
  • Qvarnström, L 2018, To Build a Welfare State . (lu.se)
  • Provides State-by-State guides to legislative changes to laws addressing domestic and family violence that were made from 1995 through 2010. (childwelfare.gov)
  • On March 3, 1995, the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare received a report from the North Central District Health Department (NCDHD) of trichinellosis in a man residing in Idaho County, Idaho (1994 population: 14,938). (cdc.gov)
  • Surprisingly enough, a much greater leader in welfare abuse than food stamps is actually Medicaid. (ipl.org)
  • The promise of a 6.2% temporary increase in the federal government's share of total Medicaid costs enticed states into forgoing this process. (cei.org)
  • Groups like Families USA (a long-time advocate of Medicaid expansion) and nursing home trade associations like the American Health Care Association and the National Center for Assisted Living (whose 14,000 members derive huge revenue from Medicaid) pressured the administration to extend the emergency, ostensibly so states can prepare for the unprecedentedly large Medicaid eligibility redeterminations that will start once it's over. (cei.org)
  • Convert the long-term care component of medicaid into a federal block grant to states, with levels of funding indexed for changes in the prices of the program and the population it serves. (csmonitor.com)
  • We need no longer see the federal and state governments as locked in battle - both are essential to serve the public adequately. (csmonitor.com)
  • Has Sweden always flown the flag for equality and welfare? (lu.se)
  • Notions of the State in Discourses on Trans Rights in Sweden. (lu.se)
  • Similarly, a study of the effects of state expenditures on state-level age-adjusted mortality reported on public expenditures, tax structures, and welfare program rules and found that more generous education spending, more progressive tax systems, and more lenient welfare program rules helped to improve population health (8). (cdc.gov)
  • Besides this, the course also introduces central concepts and theoretical approaches in welfare state research, including comparative typologies, as tolls for systematic descriptions and analyses. (lnu.se)
  • A welfare evaluation of the 1986 tax reform for married couples in the United States ," International Tax and Public Finance , Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 25(3), pages 757-807, June. (repec.org)
  • Yet, in a time of stagnating economies and increasing strain on public finances, difficult questions are now being asked about whether welfare states have become too big, too resistant to change and, as a result, too much of a drag on the economy. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The course proceeds by covering a range of the many tools at the disposal of policymakers for jointly maximizing welfare and equity, keeping track of both the spending and the financing of the public sector. (lu.se)
  • Human B. melitensis umented to result in disease (3,8,9) but does not constitute an infections occur more frequently in persons who do not have important public health concern in the United States (2,10). (cdc.gov)
  • What can public health do for the welfare state? (cdc.gov)
  • Other research explores health investment relationships in detail, estimating the effect of public services on state mortality while controlling for median income and income inequality (7). (cdc.gov)
  • Perhaps the most eloquent critiques of the welfare state come from economist Thomas Sowell. (fee.org)
  • Title : Family Planning Policies And Activities Of State Health And Welfare Departments Personal Author(s) : Harting, D.;Stableford, S.;Eliot, J. W.;Corsa, L. (cdc.gov)
  • Editorial Note: Since trichinellosis was designated a reportable condition in 1947, the number of cases reported annually by state health departments has declined from an average of 400 cases per year in the late 1940s to 32 cases in 1994 (1,2). (cdc.gov)
  • 8. For more discussion about these negative effects, see: Christopher J. Coyne and Lotta Moberg, "Working Paper: The Political Economy of State-Provided Targeted Benefits" (Mercatus Center at George Mason University, May 2014), https://perma.cc/AX22-CKRC . (mackinac.org)
  • 10. Louise Story, Tiff Fehr and Derek Watkins, "United States of Subsidies," The New York Times , 2016, https://perma.cc/RF9S-CPL5 . (mackinac.org)
  • 16. "TSET: Creating a State of Health in Oklahoma" (State of Oklahoma, 2019), https://perma.cc/5MWS-MA34 . (mackinac.org)
  • Fewer than 10% of human cases of brucellosis lae has been changing in the United States since 1947, when may be recognized and reported (19), likely because of this the number of reported cases was the highest ever recorded misleading clinical picture (2,8). (cdc.gov)
  • Gender equality and welfare politics in Scandinavia: The limits of political ambition? (lu.se)
  • But the only time either the state or capitalist businesses provide any benefits to anyone but themselves and their allies, is when they are pressured to do so. (theanarchistlibrary.org)
  • For many years after, postwar British society was frequently characterized (often pejoratively) as a "welfare state," but by the 1960s the term commonly denoted an industrial capitalist society in which state power was "deliberately used (through politics and administration) in an effort to modify the play of market forces. (thecanadianencyclopedia.ca)
  • In redistributing earned income to those who choose not to work, welfare states are not only unfair, they are intractably unfair. (theweek.com)
  • Work is another, necessary prerequisite: Americans who leave welfare for work gain the respect our society reserves for workers, even if they gain not a cent of income. (brookings.edu)
  • Early last year, Munde had said there were some five Central schemes for the welfare of transgenders and that her ministry will work towards bringing the community members into the mainstream. (indiatimes.com)
  • Cutting in-work benefits for EU citizens, including the tens of thousands of UK workers from the so-called Visegrad or V4 states, has become a political hot potato. (euobserver.com)
  • This largely unnoticed process is reshaping the aims and the boundaries of the welfare state and rolling back the universal approach cemented under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in the 1990s. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • First, principal responsibility should be presumed to belong to the states and localities, unless the problem is a national one, is beyond the resources of individual states, or cuts across state boundaries. (csmonitor.com)
  • Welfare state services are also provided at varying territorial levels of government. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Child Welfare Data Book is the Oregon Department of Human Services' annual report of child abuse and neglect statistics. (oregon.gov)
  • The federal government periodically conducts the Child and Family Services Reviews (CFSR) of state child welfare systems to achieve three goals. (oregon.gov)
  • At issue in Native Village of Tununak v. State of Alaska was this proper burden of proof that the Alaska Office of Children's Services must meet in order to move a child from one placement to another. (narf.org)
  • This site is for Child Welfare providers and partners including Behavior Rehabilitation Services providers, Children's Care Licensing agencies, Child Welfare contracted service providers, resource parents and relative caregivers and Independent Living Program providers that provide services to ODHS. (oregon.gov)
  • Writing for Ma'ariv in 2012, he argued that the National Insurance Institute (NII), the state agency in charge of most welfare benefits, "is insurance for members of the nation, as its name implies. (jewishcurrents.org)
  • And if they provide the benefits, they could lose millions of dollars in state funds for the general assistance program and have to turn others away. (foxbusiness.com)
  • Douglas Mpay, an immigrant from Angola who is seeking asylum in the U.S., said losing his municipal welfare benefits would force his wife and two children out of their apartment with few options for other places to turn. (foxbusiness.com)
  • City officials in Portland say they will continue to provide the benefits for now and are considering taking legal action themselves against the state. (foxbusiness.com)
  • The cognitive interview research described in this report was the second (and final) phase of a project designed to evaluate the questions about participation in welfare reform benefits and to develop improvements for the March 2000 CPS. (cdc.gov)
  • those results guided the development of revised questions on receipt of welfare reform benefits, which were then tested in the cognitive interviews. (cdc.gov)
  • through state and local government agencies that serve clients receiving welfare benefits. (cdc.gov)
  • as well as, for their contribution to societies' welfare. (who.int)
  • Welfare states have to be funded by imposing taxes on workers and companies, so that they make production more expensive in countries with generous welfare states. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Welfare Evaluation of the 1986 Tax Reform for Married Couples in the United States ," IZA Discussion Papers 9378, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). (repec.org)
  • Welfare, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Labor Supply of Single Mothers ," The Quarterly Journal of Economics , Oxford University Press, vol. 116(3), pages 1063-1114. (repec.org)
  • Christopher Howard is one of the most original and provocative students of the American welfare state-and this book splendidly sums up his insights. (princeton.edu)