Welfare
IT'S TANF TIME
K. Wright |
Senate Finance Committee Chair Charles Grassley’s staff has begun circulating a TANF reauthorization plan.
Gifford Miller
FOLLOW THE MONEY
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Today’s the deadline for candidates to file campaign finance disclosure statements covering the last six months.
TOUGH LOVE FOR AMERICORPS
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A leading House appropriator intends to block a Senate bill providing emergency funding to stave off AmeriCorps cuts.
Gifford Miller
TRANSLATING SERVICES
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Thirty-six of 51 City Council members are urging the speaker to move on a bill forcing human services agencies to provide translation.
UNCHECKED HOPE
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HUD is keeping a poor watch over its HOPE VI contracts. A federal audit says only a third of the revitalizations scheduled since 1993 have been finished.
CLOSED FOR SUMMER
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Summer food aid programs for kids are among the services that didn’t make it through the budget wringer intact.
The Disabled
MEDICAID EXPANSION
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Washington granted the state approval to add an estimated 20,000 working people with disabilities to Medicaid.
Homelessness
HARLEM PASSING
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Dr. Preston Washington, Jr., co-founder of Harlem Congregations for Community Improvement and pastor of Memorial Baptist Church, died on June 25.
JUDICIAL REVIEW
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The Working Families Party will offer a judicial ballot-line in Brooklyn, with nominees chosen through an independent panel.
HASA AUDIT
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The city’s AIDS services are still slow and inefficient, a comptroller’s audit charges.
