Turnover is very high, as Medicaid reimbursement depresses wages — workers, providing public assistance themselves, often must rely upon public assistance.
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And I went into [the] public assistance [office], but because I had crack in my system, they didn't want to give me public assistance.
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And he called for slashing public assistance programs indiscriminately. Sen.
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"They want to get off of public assistance," she said.
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Only one cousin and one friend knew about my public assistance.
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Catholics naturally asked for public assistance in funding their own schools.
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"I've never been on any kind of public assistance," she said.
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A lot of folks who needed public assistance really needed that.
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Many of these girls are unwed mothers and receive public assistance.
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Anyway, so Public Assistance put me up in the Web Program.
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Public assistance programs could wind up strained from the added need.
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But, he proudly declared, he has never relied on public assistance.
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Transitioning from public assistance to work, however, is not that easy.
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I know what it is like to be on public assistance.
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"This is an insurance program, it's not public assistance," he said.
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He argued that the bill was "filled with racial vicissitudes," adding that the new work requirements played on stereotypes that cast African Americans receiving public assistance as lazy, despite evidence that more whites use public assistance.
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"I absolutely hate being on public assistance," she said in an interview.
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When private charity grows, public assistance will simply be "considerably less relevant".
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You'd still have to be on public assistance, even with a job.
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I was on public assistance, and I had no money for dinners.
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The Web Program was that you worked for your public assistance grant.
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Half of these workers depend on public assistance to make ends meet.
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Many people cycle in and out of public assistance during their lifetimes.
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"We must encourage self-sufficiency among those receiving public assistance," Idaho Gov.
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To put food on the table, they may juggle appointments for public assistance.
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Thousands of Mainers have been removed from public-assistance rolls on his orders.
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More recently, it's been introducing new ways to serve customers on public assistance.
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Dolezal is also charged with perjury and making false verification for public assistance.
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And you end up with workers in poverty and public assistance programs themselves.
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I went back to public assistance, but I went to a different office.
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Twenty-five percent of part-time faculty receive some form of public assistance.
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The sheriff's department is seeking public assistance and any information regarding the investigation.
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The reality is that the largest group of public assistance recipients is whites.
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She struggles to get by without a regular income to supplement public assistance.
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They required public assistance, and at home there was often little to eat.
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And for every $1 in wages, they receive 24 cents in public assistance.
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The family receives $68 in monthly food stamps and no other public assistance.
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They understood why I needed public assistance and accepted whatever information I told them.
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Public assistance administrators wanted to push her toward cosmetology or culinary arts, she said.
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In Florida alone, low wages cost taxpayers $6900 billion per year in public assistance.
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She has been charged with welfare fraud, perjury, and false verification for public assistance.
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She gets food stamps and Medicaid (51 percent get some form of public assistance).
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The employment rate of single mothers climbed, and the share on public assistance dropped.
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They and their families are also more likely to be supported by public assistance.
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She also receives $771 in food stamps and $310 in cash from public assistance.
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For a time, my family and I relied on public assistance to get by.
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Mr. Joseph lives on $376 monthly in public assistance, including cash assistance and Medicaid.
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But mostly, I guess, folks are living off public assistance, VA benefits and the like.
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As Silverman noted, when workers rely on public assistance, that ends up costing American taxpayers.
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Other factors for recovery include the availability of affordable housing stock, and public assistance programs.
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African Americans have often been inaccurately depicted as consuming the lion's share of public assistance.
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It calls for receiving $35.3 billion in public assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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In 0003, a back-to-work program for public assistance recipients steered Ms. Hernandez there.
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She receives $421 a month in public assistance and $192 a month in food stamps.
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It's unclear why FEMA hasn't yet authorized what is known as C-G public assistance.
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The organizations spend the money at their discretion, often to cover gaps in public assistance.
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Most of us know of U.S. citizens who are truly in need of public assistance.
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We have a very poor recovery infrastructure in America to support people on public assistance.
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Or take my battle with Washington to test people seeking public assistance for drug use.
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To monitor Skyler's early developmental progress, Ms. Cruz stopped working briefly and received public assistance.
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That kind of aid would fall under FEMA's reconstruction program, known as C-G public assistance.
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The revised rule specifies people who receive public assistance like Medicaid, food stamps or housing subsidies.
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Research suggests that a majority of fast-food workers are on some form of public assistance.
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For those relying on public assistance, each interaction with public services marks the family with suspicion.
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They were five times less likely to have used public assistance in the previous seven years.
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But what happens to those who don't qualify public assistance programs and still can't afford food?
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With the exception of the MetroCard in April, Ms. Molina has not relied on public assistance.
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Scott Walker recently said his changes to public assistance programs will further elevate the estate's workforce.
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But two days later, another error closed their case, halting all public assistance, including food stamps.
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She said she was seeking cash public assistance because she was in danger of being evicted.
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She receives no public assistance, and her pending immigration status excludes her from receiving food stamps.
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"People who come here shouldn't immediately be on public assistance," a senior administration official told POLITICO.
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Offering paid leave also reduces the likelihood of workers going into debt and drawing on public assistance.
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It asks whether workers "struggle[d] with the demanding working conditions," and whether they required public assistance.
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Seventeen states implemented cuts to their K-22019 education programs, and eleven states cut public assistance programs.
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Based on FEMA public assistance data, the government isn't spending that much money in Puerto Rico yet.
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That's why nearly half of all households headed by immigrants are on some form of public assistance.
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Households in which minimum-wage workers are married to higher earners generally do not receive public assistance.
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Without public assistance, a bakery would not be viable in such a small village, the mayor said.
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And given what we know about race and public assistance, it's highly unlikely that this has changed.
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The women said the state's monthly public assistance was "grossly inadequate" and far below fair-market rent.
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"We are asking for public assistance in finding Savannah Leigh Pruitt," Monroe County Sheriff Tommy Jones said.
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Big companies seek and receive a great deal of public assistance in the form of taxpayer subsidies.
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The policy virtually bars legal immigrants from using public assistance, including Medicaid, housing vouchers and food stamps.
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The father of my childhood friend had a different path into the bleak territory of public assistance.
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The woman had started receiving public assistance after her husband was sentenced to prison for grand larceny.
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The father of my childhood friend had a different path into the bleak territory of public assistance.
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Was his training too focused on risk rather than public assistance, or was there some other reason?
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Both Meyer and Ramsey grew up in small, rural towns and relied on public assistance throughout childhood.
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So far, Puerto Rico has only gotten the basic FEMA disaster aid, known as A-B public assistance.
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Nothing. With no ID card, Almodovar couldn't apply for public assistance or perform dozens of other daily tasks.
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About 31% of that group live in a household that receives public assistance like food stamps or SNAP.
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The social crises that create the gaps in resources, filled in momentarily by public assistance, are made invisible.
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He also said that many workers were on public assistance, and received Medicaid, foot stamps or public housing.
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For many, one class instead of two is the difference between not surviving and getting onto public assistance.
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Raising their wages to minimum wage with tips on top would dramatically reduce their reliance on public assistance.
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Many Americans at the time blamed Mexican communities for taking away jobs and public assistance resources from them.
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In other terms, almost half of childcare workers qualify for public assistance programs like Medicaid and food stamps.
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David Scott (D-GA) noted that race plays a part in discussions of food stamps and public assistance.
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These public assistance programs often provide the gateway not only to health but also to economic self-sufficiency.
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No one wins, the theory goes, when taxpayers wind up on public assistance from settling overdue tax bills.
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An expansion of Mr. Trump's travel ban and public-assistance tests on green card applicants took effect Monday.
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Riders who use public assistance programs like SNAP or live in NYCHA housing are eligible for the program.
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That same month, the Childses found out they had qualified for public assistance through the Human Resources Administration.
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Through public assistance, the family can use child care centers that are suggested and subsidized by the city.
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More than half of workers at billion-dollar companies like McDonald's need public assistance to raise their families.
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It's unclear if immigrants who accept those forms of public assistance could face denaturalization under the new section.
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And as a result, misguided welfare policies — like drug testing recipients of public assistance — are making a comeback.
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In April, Trump signed an executive order aiming to harden up work requirements for welfare and public assistance programs.
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Advocates counter that raising someone's salary to a living wage means you decrease that person's reliance on public assistance.
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Reagan's Welfare Queen was a vivid image painting everyone who received public assistance as a cheat and a fraud.
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States could automatically enroll people in Medicaid, for example, by using lists of people on other public assistance programs.
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The median income for a fast-food worker is around $21,000, and more than half receive some public assistance.
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The RCMP appealed for public assistance in determining how the fire started and whether a criminal offense was involved.
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The RCMP appealed for public assistance in determining how the fire started and whether a criminal offence was involved.
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Many FLDS families receive public assistance and millions of dollars flow into Short Creek each year, federal prosecutors say.
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They can enact a merit-based immigration system that minimizes the number of people who rely on public assistance.
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When Americans who are on welfare get a job and no longer need public assistance, we rightly celebrate that.
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Supporters say higher minimum wages would put more money into consumers' pockets and help pull people off public assistance.
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State lawmakers assumed welfare recipients inherently engage in criminal activity, and therefore use public assistance to pay for drugs.
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The Working Group's proposals also hope that ensuring access to food would remove the stigma of seeking public assistance.
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Qualifying customers include those eligible for public assistance that live in certain areas and meet a few other requirements.
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"Matthew has kept a job and taken care of himself without public assistance," said Naomi Tharpe, Mr. Charles's girlfriend.
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Entry-level jobs can also serve a broader public good by moving people off public assistance and onto payrolls.
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It's a plan to create a statewide rental subsidy to help families on public assistance stay in their homes.
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She relies on about $1,300 a month in public assistance, including Supplemental Security Income, disability benefits and food stamps.
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The idea that public assistance programs can be a pathway to work and even wealth is not completely dead.
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More than half of Pursuit fellows, as the venture calls its students, are on public assistance of some kind.
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He stood by his bizarre code of honor, one that frowns on public assistance in favor of the coat hanger.
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Dolezal was charged this week with theft by welfare fraud, perjury and false verification for public assistance, court documents show.
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It also requires states to offer opportunities for voter registration at all offices that provide public assistance (like the DMV).
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The latest Census data shows that Maine has the second highest rate of people taking some form of public assistance.
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To make ends meet, teachers often work second jobs and some who are breadwinners are eligible for public assistance programs.
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Rather than attempting to revive blighted places by sending checks to people, such public assistance should be determined by places.
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Progressives should begin working to expand the number of places where people can automatically register, from public assistance to prisons.
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Changing the rules on public assistance for immigrants punishes anyone who needs a little help getting back on their feet.
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She worked for more than 30 years with the city's Human Resources Administration, helping people in need of public assistance.
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Sanders introduced a bill last month that would tax Amazon, Walmart and other big companies whose workers collect public assistance.
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Through a public assistance program, FEMA had developed guidance and policy specifically to aid Puerto Rico through the recovery process.
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Separately, judges in three states ruled against the administration's efforts to withhold green cards from immigrants who receive public assistance.
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Roy Cooper's office delivered a request for a declaration of disaster for public assistance and infrastructure to the White House.
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Some of her clients are undocumented, turning to her, she said, because they are reluctant to seek public assistance elsewhere.
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" • "Wealthier immigrants, who are designated as less likely to require public assistance, will be able to obtain a green card.
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" • "Wealthier immigrants, who are designated as less likely to require public assistance, will be able to obtain a green card.
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Boston Medical Center started surveying recipients of SNAP and other public assistance after the 216.2s welfare reform legislation took effect.
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It may soon be harder for immigrants who have used public assistance programs to become legal permanent residents or citizens.
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Among those who stay — awaiting asylum and unable to work — a small number receive public assistance for up to two years.
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Bond, meanwhile, is charged with collecting public assistance money after Bella's death and being an accessory to murder after the fact.
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From what information we've gathered, one out of three Amazon workers in Arizona, as we understand it, are on public assistance.
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Authorities were seeking public assistance to locate Suarez and Devil, who were both wearing life jackets when they were last seen.
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Revel will cut the cost by 40% for riders who use public assistance programs like SNAP or live in NYCHA housing.
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She was too poor to qualify for Obamacare subsidies, not sick enough for Medicaid, and there wasn't adequate public assistance nearby.
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Salaries are so low — some family workers can earn as little as $23,643 a year — that they qualify for public assistance.
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When workers cannot afford to meet their basic needs despite working full time, they are forced to turn to public assistance.
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"Rather than go get more public assistance, which I already felt ashamed of, I ended up selling myself out," she says.
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Currently, all Cubans are eligible for welfare payments and other public assistance during their first five years in the United States.
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One, a former alcoholic, was on public assistance and had two children; we suspected he had recently fallen off the wagon.
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That contract was awarded by PREPA with the understanding that FEMA's public assistance grants would eventually cover most of the cost.
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HUD Secretary Ben Carson has been highly critical of public assistance, suggesting that too many Americans have become dependent upon it.
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Now that same benefit is arriving for recipients of Medicaid, the public assistance program providing medical coverage to low-income Americans.
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But evaluations of job requirements on public assistance programs have found them to be ineffective in moving more people into jobs.
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Cost-benefit analyses suggest that these programs save taxpayers money, mostly by reducing health care costs and use of public assistance.
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Now North Carolina is one of 13 states with laws that require drug tests for those who receive public assistance benefits.
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Over beers at a bar down the street, many of them told me they were on public assistance of some kind.
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I want to get off public assistance, and whatever I reach, I want it to be out of my own labor.
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All of this suggests clear benefits for families and taxpayers, with reduced use of public assistance programs and improved economic security.
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On Tuesday, Trump signed a federal emergency declaration for Puerto Rico authorizing aid and public assistance for disaster planning and relief.
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In fact, our industries do more than any government program or regulation can ever do to move people off public assistance.
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Yet defining public assistance as inherently counterproductive denies the possibility that there may be a trade-off between values and effectiveness.
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Subsidies and public assistance offset some of this, but families struggling financially still keenly feel the pinch of rising energy costs.
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For a few years she bounced around doing odd jobs, including work as an advocate for people on public assistance programs.
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Of the 380 people we interviewed, over half received public assistance and a vast majority had problems paying their legal debt.
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Such a system would prioritize high-skilled workers, which advocates argue would reduce immigration rates and minimize newcomers' reliance on public assistance.
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DiPierro was due to start her 366-day prison term in April after pleading guilty to charges of defrauding public assistance programs.
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Ninety percent of the students at P.S. 307 are black or Hispanic, and the same proportion are from families receiving public assistance.
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"Professors on food stamps," went the tag lines in magazines like Salon; "Your College Professor Could Be on Public Assistance," crowed NBC.
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The term "able-bodied" has historically been used to arbitrarily separate the people lawmakers feel are, and aren't, deserving of public assistance.
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But a responsible role for the government should be to move people off of public assistance and into a family-supporting job.
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Well, the overwhelming majority [of people] on public assistance want to work, but where's a job that pays more than minimum wage?
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Without broadband Internet access, you may have a hard time applying for a job, a driver's license, financial aid or public assistance.
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With a record of prostitution, it's much harder for these young women to attend college, receive public assistance, and live independent lives.
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But, coming on the heels of Trump's recent executive order on welfare, Democrats see a worrying conservative attack on public assistance programs.
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Private social service organizations have stepped in to try to offset cuts to public assistance at the local, state and federal levels.
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The lawyer argues Florida needs a pay hike in part because many minimum wage workers still have to rely on public assistance.
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The rule, which critics have called a "wealth test" for immigrants, penalizes legal immigrants for using public assistance programs such as Medicaid.
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Judges in three states ruled against a policy that would withhold green cards to immigrants who receive public assistance such as Medicaid.
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The program, called Home Stability Support, would help bridge the gap between the shelter allowance for public assistance recipients and market rents.
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For example, teen parents are more likely to drop out of school and receive public assistance than those who delay becoming parents.
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In fact, nearly half of low-income women who lack access to paid leave end up using public assistance after giving birth.
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It's important to keep in mind how close we are, many New Yorkers, from needing public assistance and from needing public housing.
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These days, they mostly just suck up public assistance that might be better spent on, I don't know, helping sick kids or something.
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But the official poverty line is the same in every state and takes no account of different living costs or of public assistance.
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"It's part of a false narrative about refugees and also immigrants more broadly exploiting public assistance when the data says it's not true."
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Legislation based in racist imagery, without facts — like drug testing public assistance recipients — only serves to perpetuate a system of covert oppressive racism.
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Such a cap could help narrow the chasm between small farmers and the wealthiest agriculturalists who receive the bulk of the public assistance.
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According to FEMA, $5.8 billion has been obligated as public assistance grants and $1.3 billion has been approved as individual and household aid.
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Critics argue the public charge rule, though, skews the debate over broader public assistance programs to lower support for the otherwise popular programs.
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The new rule will force immigration officers reviewing green card applications to consider an applicant's use of public assistance before making their decision.
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Why would we want to facilitate people sitting and home and receive public assistance when they would rather be working, providing for themselves?
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The USDA this morning announced the launch of a pilot program that will open up online grocery shopping to those on public assistance.
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One major change could deny green cards to many migrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance.
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Many of the stadiums and arenas have been built with sizable public assistance in the form of free land, tax breaks and cash.
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They receive $200 a month in food stamps and $280 in public assistance; Xavier receives $750 a month in Social Security disability payments.
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Applicants enter of their own volition and are denied a visa if they have a criminal record or would rely on public assistance.
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Sixty percent of social-service workers, the report indicates, use or have a family member who uses at least one public-assistance benefit.
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Some were teenagers who had run away from foster care and were wary of seeking public assistance for fear of being sent back.
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The law rejected the forms of identification used disproportionately by blacks, including IDs issued to government employees, students and people receiving public assistance.
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For every $1 in wages paid by Amazon, warehouse workers receive an estimated $0.24 cents in public assistance, according to the same report.
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She worked her way off public assistance, earned bachelor's and master's degrees, and saved enough money to pay for my Ivy League education.
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About 1,150 students use the program, attending 41 schools; 81 percent are black, and more than half receive some kind of public assistance.
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Yet the history of public assistance policies shows that measures like Governor Walker's can catalyze a vicious cycle of stigmatization and program retrenchment.
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Instead, they are more likely to end up needing public assistance and relying on programs like food stamps to help them get by.
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He introduced a bill that would slap a tax on these companies equal to the value of the public assistance their workers receive.
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Unlike many such bills, his takes an expansive view of acceptable identification — from public-assistance IDs to employee badges to student identification cards.
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The survey, which interviewed 3103,2310 Puerto Ricans in the state, also found that about 28 percent of respondents had received some public assistance.
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The company's employees who don't make enough money to meet their needs end up using public assistance programs that cost an estimated $6.2 billion.
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"It's important to keep in mind how close we are, many New Yorkers, from needing public assistance and from needing public housing," he added.
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It is the administration's latest step to clamp down on the food stamps program, which covers 38 million Americans, and other public assistance services.
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At the same time, he notes that a staggering number live at the poverty level, despite public assistance benefits, because of their large households.
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Compared to the financial "benefits" of working low wage jobs, staying on public assistance is often a very attractive option for Americans and Israelis.
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Dolezal illegally received thousands of dollars in public assistance between 2015 and 2017, according to court documents obtained by Spokane news station KHQ-TV.
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The FEMA Public Assistance Program has committed $2.4 billion in funding for emergency protective measures and debris removal in Puerto Rico, according to FEMA.
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Of course large states like California and New York have a lot more total people on Medicaid and every other form of public assistance.
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Without a fixed address, she stopped receiving the public-assistance checks that had helped stretch what she earned in a factory molding plaster figurines.
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I grew up a welfare kid, literally on public assistance from the day I was born until the day I graduated from high school.
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She receives $240 a month in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program; her grandmother receives $182 in monthly Public Assistance benefits and $192 monthly from SNAP.
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After two major surgeries and lengthy, painful recoveries, Mr. Jackson was eager to work again, having relied on public assistance for income since 2016.
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It makes sense that Medicaid enrollment grew during the recession — a worse economy means people making less money and thereby qualifying for public assistance.
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Nearly 22015 percent of students are not proficient in English, and 260 percent come from families who are on some form of public assistance.
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States gaining money are mostly governed by the GOP, which favors a smaller government role in health care and other forms of public assistance.
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"I'm surprised that people really are seeing how hard it is to get on public assistance and to get off of it," she said.
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Andrew Cuomo estimated that the state paid out $85033 million a year in public assistance benefits just to workers at McDonald's and Burger King.
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For individuals, graduating college has a wide array of benefits — from reducing the likelihood of unemployment and reliance on public assistance to healthier lifestyles.
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One, it could increase costs to the federal government as Puerto Ricans rely on public assistance to help reestablish themselves on the U.S. mainland.
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Paid leave programs have also been found to increase worker retention rates in low-wage jobs, and reduce new parents' use of public assistance.
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FEMA has so far approved more than $1.9 billion in public assistance grants and more than $1.1 billion through its Individuals and Households Program.
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To make matters worse, we've imposed more and more work requirements on public assistance, even as we've regulated away access to legally legitimate jobs.
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President Trump signed an executive order in April designed to help rein in public assistance spending – including Medicaid – for able-bodied people with low incomes.
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The bulk of the federal money is spent on public assistance — that's the funding to be used for hospitals and other medical nonprofits to rebuild.
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Mr Trump, despite public assistance for the transition afforded to him and Mrs Clinton by Congress, and counsel from Romney campaign veterans, is less ready.
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Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) introduced the "Stop Bezos Act" last month to punish large companies whose workers depend on public assistance because of low wages.
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In her experience, refugees have no desire to be on public assistance for any longer than necessary and start working as soon as they can.
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A report from the progressive coalition Americans for Tax Fairness found that Walmart employees' reliance on public assistance programs cost taxpayers $6.2 billion in 2013.
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The next largest contributing factors were certain economic indicators, including more people dependent on the the mining industry or on some kind of public assistance.
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Such data tended to show Asian-Americans as a "model minority," a relatively prosperous and highly educated group that did not need any public assistance.
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In Texas, FEMA has provided $323 million worth of public assistance grants and has authorized both short-term emergency help and long-term rebuilding costs.
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They would also be prohibited from receiving various forms of public assistance, and would remain fully subject to the vetting process imposed by current law.
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Keeping the community in mind, the vendors will accept public assistance benefits and offer at least one $5 item on the menu, The National reports.
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By law, disabled Americans in need of public assistance can live where they want to, but millions of people are unwillingly confined to nursing homes.
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In fact, the total cost of public assistance for families of workers in the full-service restaurant industry is more than $9.4 billion per year.
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And when parents are better supported at work through paid family and medical leave, they are also less likely to rely on public assistance benefits.
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Without public assistance, she was unable to afford the two inhalers — one was $200, the other was $75 — that she needed for her chronic asthma.
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On Monday, the White House also rolled out a policy to reject green cards for immigrants who are using, or likely to use, public assistance.
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Conley reportedly cited her own experiences receiving public assistance from the county roughly 85033 years ago in propelling her into a career in public service.
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Look, if we have seen 45 states with frameworks where one in five public assistance programs are online, you need full access to the internet.
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But without regulatory waivers and pilot funding, policymakers will not know if these ideas will prevent economic hardships and reduce reliance on chronic public assistance.
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Some are pushed into public assistance in order to stay home longer, which could lead to worse outcomes for both the mother and her child.
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As Vox's Dylan Matthews wrote, they note that white opposition to public assistance programs has increased since 2008 — the year that Barack Obama was elected.
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The state's housing allowance for single people on public assistance is $215 a month, not enough for even a single room in New York City.
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The new provision could deem an immigrant ineligible for permanent status or citizenship if they have a history of using public assistance, such as Medicaid.
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James added that her parents were on public assistance and this rule will exclude black and brown people who would be elected to public office.
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King went on that he believes the border wall would create millions of new jobs and reduce the amount of public assistance people would need.
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In 2014, the Washington Post reported that Walmart's low wages cost U.S. taxpayers as much as an estimated $6.2 billion a year in public assistance.
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The public assistance program, known as the Family Eviction Prevention Supplement, has remained flat since it was established in 210, even as rents have skyrocketed.
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The women said they faced eviction because the monthly public assistance they received from the state was "grossly inadequate" and far below fair-market rent.
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In the 211s, Thomas More's novel "Utopia" advanced the suggestion that thieves would be better deterred by public assistance than fear of a death sentence.
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Trans people also face stigmas and misinformation around who they are, as well as barriers and discrimination in employment, housing, health care and public assistance.
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Her plan would also legalize marijuana, expunge records containing marijuana convictions, and nix federal bans that prevent previously incarcerated individuals from accessing public assistance programs.
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"It is important for all applicants for FEMA Public Assistance to understand and abide by federal requirements for grantee procurement," FEMA said in its statement.
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One of every five public assistance dollars has streamed here to this quintessentially vulnerable place, Louisiana — by far the most per capita of any state.
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And Raimondo has stains on her record, including the botched rollout of a $650 million public-assistance computer system that wasn't ready, wreaking epic havoc.
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In a recent report by The New York Times, Patricia Cohen explained, when workers aren't paid enough, they are forced to rely on public assistance programs.
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Ken Cuccinelli has been in the media this week after announcing a rule limiting green cards for migrants, using housing vouchers, Medicaid, and other public assistance.
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In September he even co-sponsored the Stop BEZOS Act, a bill that would tax corporations for every dollar of public assistance that their workers received.
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Not only from financial distress, but from losing a support system to advocate for them and to help them navigate the complexities of public assistance programs.
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House Republicans are pushing for stricter work requirements in the food stamp program, the first concrete legislative step this year targeting the nation's public assistance programs.
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FEMA has offered more than $2800 billion in aid to disaster victims through its Individuals and Households Program and $2000 billion in public assistance this year.
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After the 2018 Camp Fire, the deadliest in California history, FEMA provided over $186 million to date through public assistance grants and the individual & households program.
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Trump previously issued a major disaster declaration weeks ago authorizing money from FEMA public assistance grants for the County of Hawaii, the island's local governing authority.
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The policy discourages legal immigrants in the process of obtaining permanent legal status or citizenship from using public assistance, including Medicaid, housing vouchers and food stamps.
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His wife and children relied on public assistance and moved from town to town following him as he was transferred from one upstate prison to another.
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The so-called public charge rule, unveiled in August, impacts people who rely on public assistance, including most forms of Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers.
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She said she did not want to depend on public assistance but had to, collecting about $1,050 a month combined in food stamps and disability benefits.
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Struggling to get by on a cashier's wage of $8.25 an hour, she applied for public assistance and once received $191 in food stamps each month.
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The policy discourages legal immigrants in the process of obtaining permanent legal status or citizenship from using public assistance, including Medicaid, housing vouchers and food stamps.
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She landed in the tabloids after a contentious custody battle and subsequent fights over child support, and has been open about her time on public assistance.
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Officials estimated each patient diagnosed with HIV would take $1 million of state money when health care and public assistance was factored into the total cost.
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The UC Berkeley study found that low wages, and not inadequate hours, are the primary culprit for why so many manufacturing workers require public assistance to survive.
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Ro Khanna (D-CA) have introduced a bill that would tax companies like Amazon and Walmart for the cost of employees' food stamps and other public assistance.
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When they grow up, they have lower earnings and income, are more dependent on public assistance, have more health problems, and are more likely to commit crimes.
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Roy Cooper (D) requested that the president expedite a declaration of an emergency in North Carolina on Monday, hoping to obtain public assistance for the entire state.
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The cost of living and the poverty line are rising in the state, with more people qualifying for public assistance, according to Tristate, a local news affiliate.
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The White House also has been pushing for tougher work requirements for public assistance programs that target low-income Americans, including food stamps and public housing assistance.
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PREPA, which filed for bankruptcy-like protection earlier this year, was expecting to get reimbursed for the contract through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's public assistance grants.
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Kigeli V, the last king of a dynasty that ruled Rwanda for a millennium, died last Sunday in Washington, where he had been living on public assistance.
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In fact, one-quarter of part-time faculty are on public assistance, according to a 2015 report from the Labor Center at the University of California, Berkeley.
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The Trump administration wants lawful permanent residence, also known as green-card status, to be denied to greater numbers of legal immigrants for having received public assistance.
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And state governments that have been trying, with encouragement from the Trump administration, to reduce public assistance by imposing work requirements should suspend all such requirements, immediately.
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Still, despite noting Mr. Childs's veteran status in September 2015, the family was not referred to the proper office for public assistance for more than a year.
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Scripture, they say, opposes public assistance on principle ("God has charged believers to help the poor and widows and orphans," the council's culture impact team manual explains).
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Mr. Salim said he was confused about disclosing the jobs because he did not speak English very well, but he pleaded guilty to wrongly obtaining public assistance.
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The Ottawa Police Service said in a statement that the assailant is still at large and that it is seeking public assistance identifying and locating the gunman.
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The proposed new rule would allow the US to reject immigrants seeking legal resident status if they have used or are considered likely to use public assistance.
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One-third are eligible for public assistance, like food stamps, Medicaid, and Children's Health programs, because wages are so low, researchers at the University of California found.
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More was spent on public assistance during that period than on reimbursements by FEMA's better-known National Flood Insurance Program, which covers losses by homeowners and businesses.
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The report also said that 18% of those displaced, or 252,000 people, will not be reskillable economically, so the government will have to step in with public assistance.
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According to EPI, almost 67 percent of people receiving public assistance nationwide are in working families where more than one adult in a household is earning a salary.
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Requests for public assistance climbed by 129 percent in Florida during the last three months of 211, compared to the same period in 2016, according to state figures.
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The National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), passed in 1993, requires the DMV and government offices that provide public assistance to give people the opportunity to register to vote.
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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) recently called out Jeff Bezos for amassing more and more wealth while Amazon warehouse employees make so little that they qualify for public assistance.
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The obvious place to spend that cash is in the state general fund, which goes toward state employee salaries and public assistance programs, or on new infrastructure programs.
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Raising the wage alone has empowered 3.2 million New Yorkers, and provided them with the opportunity to generate business and make strides towards weaning off public assistance programs.
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These standards also track with FEMA's requirements for post-disaster public assistance, HUD requirements for post-disaster community development and the federal government's requirements for its own buildings.
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The Childses, who are among almost 22,2000 people in New York State who receive some public assistance, according to state calculations in June, never expected to need help.
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Ninety percent of its students are members of minority groups, 60 percent have no more than a high school degree, and half receive some form of public assistance.
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Rather than becoming more dependent on government, he said, the people who move into Habitat homes and receive public assistance are "hardworking" and become productive citizens and taxpayers.
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The administration has also notably sought to crack down on immigrants' enrolling in Medicaid, by changing federal "public charge" rules so they penalize migrants for utilizing public assistance.
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College graduates typically earn more money, are more satisfied with their jobs and are less likely to be on public assistance than people with only high school degrees.
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"We have UAW members who work long, hard hours and are still on public assistance," said Gerald Kariem, Director of UAW Region 1D, speaking of the maintenance workers.
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A spokesman for the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said it was too early to tell what Puerto Rico might get in so-called public assistance funding.
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Without a living wage, working people will continue to live in poverty and rely on public assistance such as SNAP and Medicaid — and be blamed for their predicament.
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For women denied abortions, public-assistance programs failed to make up for the cost of a new baby and to pull households out of poverty, the study found.
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Only 15 percent of them receive employer-sponsored health insurance, and depending on which state they are in, nearly half belong to families that rely on public assistance.
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At least 15 states — by and large dominated by Republicans — have passed laws tying public assistance to drug testing or screening, according to the National Conference for State Legislatures.
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Some think it could be security to welfare or other kinds of public assistance because a universal basic income doesn&apost tell people what to spend the assistance on.
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The Washington Post reports the administration is circulating drafts of additional executive actions that would change the visa process and target immigrants -- and potential immigrants -- who receive public assistance.
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Bond also pleaded guilty to larceny over $250 by false purposes for allegedly continuing to accept public assistance after she knew of Bella's death, a court official tells PEOPLE.
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According to a 2013 report from the Committee for Better Banks, about one-third of bank tellers were on some form of public assistance, from Medicaid to food stamps.
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Earnings are so paltry that 58% of child-care workers in California qualify for some form of public assistance, such as food stamps, says Deborah Stipek of Stanford University.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officers will now weigh public assistance along with other factors such as education, household income and health to determine whether to grant legal status.
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" He said that while collecting data was difficult, "from what information we've gathered, one out of three Amazon workers in Arizona, as we understand it, are on public assistance.
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Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has previously taken aim at the company's median salary of around $28,000, claiming that one in three Amazon workers in Arizona are on public assistance.
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For supporters of affordable and supportive housing, getting people off public assistance is indeed the goal; it's also the case for increasing access to critical HUD-controlled federal subsidies.
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The Trump administration is considering two executive orders to restrict immigration, taking aim at immigrant workers and those likely to depend on public assistance, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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About one-third of bank tellers were on some form of public assistance, from Medicaid to food stamps, according to a 2013 report from The Committee for Better Banks.
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Read: Trump may block immigrants who used public assistance from getting citizenship The government has been slower to turn over information about these families than the NGOs would like.
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What's more, being a public assistance program leads to hard-fought gains becoming precarious; already, there's concern that the increased federal funding may be clawed back by the Senate.
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According to an analysis of Census Bureau data, 63 percent of immigrant-headed households use public assistance, compared with 35 percent of households headed by a native-born American.
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Wage seizures have led patients to sign up for public assistance programs, fall behind on bills, give up their insurance and take on credit card debt, according to interviews.
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P.S. 261 has a racially mixed student body, with white students making up a plurality, and 41 percent of students come from families receiving some form of public assistance.
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The Trump administration on Monday announced a new "public charge" rule expanding the government's ability to reject green cards for immigrants using or deemed likely to use public assistance.
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Health policy experts interpreted the decrease as partially the result of a chilling effect of the Trump administration's efforts to restrict access to public assistance, the Washington Post reported.
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Before the 1996 welfare reform law, a majority of states had been experimenting with innovations centered on preparing welfare recipients for work and a life free of public assistance.
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Thanks to the massive "welfare reform" bill that President Bill Clinton signed two decades ago, new immigrants are ineligible for public assistance during their first five years in America.
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The suit against Husted claims that state violated the National Voter Registration Act, which made it easier for people on public assistance or with disabilities to register to vote.
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You get dirty glances for looking poor — but are also judged if you look "too rich," by wearing something an observer deems too nice for someone on public assistance.
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The incident, caught on cellphone videos and shared widely online, has propelled her into the center of a public reckoning over how the city treats people seeking public assistance.
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While the benefits of these public assistance programs seem clear, even if one rejected this research we have a moral obligation to provide basic human services to legal immigrants.
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President Barack Obama relaxed some of the restrictions on accessing Pell grants, and only a handful of states continue to enforce the bans on food stamps and public assistance.
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Seema Verma, the top federal Medicaid official, has generally championed work requirements as a way to promote greater independence for Medicaid beneficiaries and reduce their reliance on public assistance.
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Her case was extreme, but not unusual — Berlinerblau cites one study suggesting that as many as one-quarter of part-time faculty members receive some form of public assistance.
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The policy in question would expand the government's ability to refuse green cards or visas for legal immigrants determined to be a "public charge," or dependent on public assistance.
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And, in fact, among teens whose households were enrolled in public assistance program – often connected with high rates of obesity – there was a significant decline in body mass percentile.
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And last February Massachusetts began a program that connected four community colleges with four-year campuses to offer housing, meals and some public assistance to 20 full-time students.
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The administration has won temporary approval from the Supreme Court to deny green cards to immigrants thought likely to tap public assistance programs, the so-called public charge rule.
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Harris would also legalize marijuana at the federal level, as well as expunge those convictions, and would end federal bans preventing formerly incarcerated individuals from accessing public assistance programs.
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The controversy: Opponents say the administration is blending the issues of welfare and broader public assistance programs in a deliberate way, in order to lower support for popular initiatives.
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The Beckham group "asked for public assistance initially, but I said we weren't going to give them any tax deals," said Carlos Giménez, the mayor of Miami-Dade County.
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Some Puerto Ricans were hesitant to talk about their precarious financial situations, fearing backlash from Puerto Ricans on the island who question their dependence on public assistance, they said.
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The bill, pointedly called the Stop Bad Employers by Zeroing Out Subsidies, or Bezos, Act, is aimed at shaming companies like Amazon and Walmart, whose workers rely on public assistance.
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Pursuit's current class of 144 is a 50 percent split between male and female fellows, 50 percent immigrants, 60 percent black or Hispanic, and the majority are on public assistance.
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The new public assistance threshold, taken together with higher requirements for education, work skills and health, will make it more difficult for immigrants to qualify for green cards, advocates say.
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But if it's addresses, contact info, or the fact of whether someone uses public assistance, such leaks do not necessarily have to be disclosed (specific disclosure laws vary by state).
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Total public assistance dollars approved: $13,430,039,697.20 Ten years after Katrina, FEMA had provided more than $15 billion for public works projects in the four Gulf states affected by the storm.
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She has also been invited to speak at events hosted by Hunger Free America and the New York Immigration Coalition, sharing how access to public assistance would affect her family.
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At P.S. 124, where 164 percent of the students are Asian, nearly half come from families receiving some form of public assistance, and 37 percent are not proficient in English.
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This is obviously fabulous news for those workers who deserve to earn enough money that they don't have to rely on public assistance just to keep body and soul together.
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Instead, too many full-time workers must rely on public assistance programs like food stamps, Medicaid and subsidized housing just to survive – while corporate executives and shareholders earn record profits.
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Some experts argue that the use of the term "welfare reform" is racially coded, serving as a dog whistle that positions public assistance as an unfair advantage given to minorities.
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They are accused of pressuring one of Luthmann's clients—who was blind, living on public assistance, and afraid of getting caught—into being the head of one of these companies.
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Prosecutors charged Ms. Dolezal, 40, who legally changed her name in 2016 to Nkechi Amare Diallo, with theft by welfare fraud, perjury and falsifying records for public assistance — all felonies.
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Noting that 5 percent of the state's children live in deep poverty, Mr. Newsom called for more money for CalWorks, a public assistance program for families that has drawn criticism.
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Currently, nearly half of low-income women who lack access to paid family leave go on public assistance after having a baby, meaning they do not pay into Social Security.
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Our national average wage is just $10.49 per hour, half of us are on public assistance, and we rarely receive even the most basic of benefits, like paid sick time.
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The settlement will be converted to a class action to cover those families and others, though three of the initial plaintiffs no longer receive public assistance and will not benefit.
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Democrats say those figures only show Mr. Trump has pushed struggling Americans off public assistance by pressing to restrict eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Medicaid and other programs.
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It has also announced a "public charge" rule which would make a person's ability to receive a green card dependent on whether or not they used certain public assistance programs.
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Mr. Dombi's latest headache is President Trump's new immigration rule denying green cards to people considered likely to go on public assistance — a group that includes many home care workers.
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Until a decade ago, Judy said, they were able to afford an apartment for under $800 a month, scraped together from their small jewelry business, odd jobs and public assistance.
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As I never tire of telling crowds, if Washington will get out of the way, we can help Wisconsinites, and make sure public assistance is a trampoline — not a hammock.
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It found a willing partner, up to a point, in FEMA, which provided $68.8 million in public assistance grants to repair the airport and its grounds, according to authority officials.
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John Connolly, a senior public assistance adviser in FEMA's Louisiana Recovery Office, tried to persuade Mr. Hingle to make the jail smaller and move it to higher, more accessible ground.
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"I realized I didn't want to keep pursuing these dead-end jobs," said Ms. Alston, who receives public assistance through the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children.
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It assumes that low-wage workers are the principal group receiving public assistance, but there are plenty of middle-income Americans who rely on the social safety net as well.
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Moreover, cannibalizing Obamacare, setting public assistance ever further out of reach, and exploding the deficit with massive tax cuts doesn't make the ruling political right a friend of free markets.
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The idea underlying work requirements — that there's a large number of people on public assistance who should be working and aren't because of laziness or inertia or whatever — just isn't true.
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The Royal Barbados Police Force said it is seeking public assistance to locate Oscar Suarez, 32, and Magdalena Devil, 25, who were both wearing life jackets when they were last seen.
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Louisiana How to register: You can register online, mail a form to your parish's voter registrar or in person at a public assistance agency, military recruiter or office of Motor Vehicles.
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The Trump administration on Monday announced a plan that will make it harder for legal immigrants who use public assistance such as food stamps or Medicaid to obtain a green card.
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I survive by the meager income I bring in by freelancing when I am well enough to do so and by depending on several public-assistance programs to make ends meet.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has so far approved more than $660 million in aid for individuals in Puerto Rico as well as more than $450 million in public assistance.
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" The state agency said in a release FEMA's public assistance program should reimburse applicants such as the state for "at least 75 percent of eligible costs with a federally declared disaster.
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Democrats defended the rules, saying they gave states the ability to randomly drug test workers who through no fault of their own are unemployed, poor or in need of public assistance.
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The 216 National Voter Registration Act — the "motor voter" law — aimed to increase registration by requiring motor vehicle and public-assistance offices to offer patrons a chance to enroll as voters.
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It's true that public assistance figures don't capture all the money the federal government spends to respond to a disaster (the cost of sending federal workers to help out, for example).
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At the same time, workers at its regional subsidiary Envoy Air are paid poverty-level wages that leave workers reliant on public assistance and even donating blood just to get by.
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But the new legislation would also require that Evers obtain permission from the GOP legislature before seeking to tweak the conditions of federal waivers or making changes to public assistance programs.
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Earlier this year, the administration made sweeping changes to regulations that would deny green cards to immigrants who use some forms of public assistance, but the courts have blocked that measure.
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It is instructive, as coal mining companies go bankrupt and coal plants shut down, to watch as industry leaders vigorously shed their purported free market principles in support of public assistance.
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Supporters, however, claim repealing the rule gives states the ability to randomly drug test workers who through no fault of their own are unemployed, poor or in need of public assistance.
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As for the poisonous effect of ideology on the debate over public assistance: Big data promises something closer to an unbiased, ideology-free evaluation of the effectiveness of these social programs.
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Many rely on some form of public assistance despite full-time employment, with minimum-wage salaries failing to keep up with rising costs of living — even as airline profits have soared.
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Abuses had continued into the nineteen-seventies, when thousands of women—including some who were receiving public assistance in North Carolina and others who were incarcerated in California—were involuntarily sterilized.
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On that same day, Governor Cooper followed up the request for the Public Assistance Program for infrastructure recovery with a request to the White House for assistance with individuals and families.
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Now she fears she could be a prime target as Mr. Trump takes a page from the 1990s welfare overhaul, which created work requirements and established time limits for public assistance.
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In addition, all people on public assistance would be informed of their housing rights and would be advised that they could not be summarily evicted, even from a three-quarter house.
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This comes at a time when the Trump administration is changing the immigration laws to discourage the use of public assistance -- such as Medicaid -- among those seeking green cards, Levitt noted.
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Local governments that do not have the resources to support refugees in becoming "self-sufficient and free from long-term dependence on public assistance" will be able to turn them away.
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The state is already set to start a revamped rental assistance program, after settling a lawsuit filed by the Legal Aid Society on behalf of public assistance recipients threatened with eviction.
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And recently, the administration proposed a new rule that would make it measurably harder for immigrants who have received public assistance to secure entry or permanent status in the United States.
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Traditionally, Democrats do better with a larger electorate, leading Republicans to fight such measures as the 1993 "motor-voter" law that let Americans register at driver-license and public assistance offices.
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She said the firing came a few months after her work hours had been sharply reduced without explanation, forcing her to supplement her pay with unemployment benefits and other public assistance.
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I spent my entire childhood in poverty, reliant on public assistance from the day I was born until my high school graduation and with a few brief sporadic returns after that.
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Brown says the review could likely expand to the Washington State Health Care Authority and possibly other agencies that provide public assistance and might collect personal information and indicators of citizenship status.
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In one of the early parts in the book, I write about a previous project I did that focused primarily on families on public assistance in my hometown, in Troy, New York.
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A real wake-up moment for me was when I was sitting with a young mother and we were talking about technology and her use of the public assistance EBT debit cards.
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There hasn't been a single clip of Hannah at a public assistance office, trying to get medicaid or food stamps, something that most people in her position would have to do immediately.
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The new rule would discriminate much more severely against applicants by broadening the definition of "public charge" to include reliance on virtually any public assistance, including the Medicare prescription drug benefit program.
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"Closing a productive plant when GM has accepted significant public assistance and has reported healthy third-quarter profits of $2.5 billion is an example of extremely poor corporate citizenship," the lawmakers wrote.
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The suit claims the new rule violates the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 by contradicting the longstanding definition of public charge as a person "primarily" dependent on public assistance for survival.
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A key element of that agenda should be the introduction of a financial transaction tax dedicated to payments for Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, unemployment insurance and other forms of public assistance.
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Federal law allows Trump to restrict public assistance "of any kind where an illegal alien could possibly benefit," said Dale Wilcox, executive director of the Washington-based conservative Immigration Reform Law Institute.
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I didn't want to go clean parks, because I remember some of the girls were getting, you know, harassed and beaten up by other people in Public Assistance in the web program.
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As a result, nearly a quarter of home care workers live below the federal poverty line and more than half are forced to rely on public assistance to cover their basic needs.
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The measures floated by [Nancy] Pelosi and other leaders included an expansion of unemployment insurance, food stamps and other public assistance programs as well as allowing for more sick and family leave.
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To be clear, no immigrant should remove himself from public assistance programs, at least until the rule is made final, and we still have several steps before that would become a reality.
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Cuccinelli's comments came days as he defended a policy rolled out by the Trump administration that makes it easier to reject green cards for those deemed likely to depend on public assistance.
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The state's housing allowance for single people on public assistance is $215 a month, not enough for much of anything in a city where the median monthly rent is more than $1,300.
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And local governments that do not have the resources to support refugees in becoming "self-sufficient and free from long-term dependence on public assistance" will be able to turn them away.
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For people who do not have phones or computers, the city has expanded its system of self-service document scanning at public assistance offices and at the offices of community-based groups.
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From a research standpoint, these remain early days for basic income, a time for experimentation and assessment before serious amounts of money may be devoted to a new model for public assistance.
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The bill's changes to food stamps would be the first concrete legislative steps this year targeting the nation's public assistance programs, an important goal for GOP leaders that Ryan emphasized on Thursday.
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Applicants could be deemed inadmissible if they raise security, terrorist or health concerns; have a criminal history; depend on public assistance; previously violated immigration or labor laws; or have previously been deported.
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FEMA runs individual and public assistance programs, which provide funding (after a fair bit of paperwork) for people to rebuild their homes and for cities and towns to rebuild damaged public facilities.
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He reportedly admitted that he was able to travel freely between the U.S. and Mexico using a passport that he obtained via the same stolen identity he used to defraud public assistance programs.
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By contrast, today, the situation is much different; too many foreigners come here illegally, wangle (sic) their way onto public assistance, and then sit as unassimilated clumps at best, as terrorists at worse.
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I spent 10 years working for Hampton County, which regulates public assistance, the hospitals, the jails, the various entities and agencies that seem to deeply really impact people's lives, particularly people of color.
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It's the story of the working poor who labor in tough jobs — like Wade's position as an assembler for a Ford Motor plant — that don't pay enough to keep them off public assistance.
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A former NAACP leader who notoriously disguised herself as a black woman for years is now facing criminal welfare fraud charges after investigators say she illegally received thousands of dollars in public assistance.
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The vote followed shortly after the success of another ballot measure, which made illegal immigrants ineligible for public assistance (including schooling) and is now widely thought responsible for sinking the state's Republican Party.
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Moreover, economies are stronger in sanctuary counties—from higher median household income, less poverty, and less reliance on public assistance to higher labor force participation, higher employment-to-population ratios, and lower unemployment.
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The school is on an upper floor of a building that it shares with a zoned middle school, I.S. 59; both schools principally serve students of color whose families qualify for public assistance.
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Though government provides 72 percent of the funding for the home care sector, predominantly through Medicaid, over half of the workers must rely upon public assistance themselves because their wages are so inadequate.
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It would reject applicants for temporary or permanent visas if they fail to meet high enough income standards or if they receive public assistance such as welfare, food stamps, public housing or Medicaid.
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President Trump's budget would eliminate or drastically reduce federal funding for many of those public assistance programs as well – even as his own policies will force more federal workers to rely on them.
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He started volunteering there once a month, helping the residents with their post-incarceration legal issues: getting their criminal records expunged, their public-assistance benefits restored, or their housing and employment sorted out.
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What they're saying: In a new paper, Glaeser and two co-authors — former Obama Administration chief economist Larry Summers and Harvard Ph.D. candidate Benjamin Austin — argue that the government should recontemplate public assistance.
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Watching the Showtime show "SMILF," I could almost physically feel the desperation and hopelessness of the main character, Bridgette, as she turns to public assistance to help feed herself and her young son.
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The Trump administartion is moving ahead with rule changes to the food stamp program that could boot 700,000 Americans from public assistance as the spread of the coronavirus continues damaging the US economy.
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Standards for public assistance were "never intended to exclude working-class immigrants from developing countries," said Charles Wheeler, a director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, one of the plaintiffs in the case.
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"Unemployment remains low, wage growth is up, & we now see fewer people relying on public assistance," Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, wrote on Twitter in April.
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The U.S. Census Bureau is requesting information from drivers' license records and public assistance recipients in an effort to make documenting citizenship a key aspect of the 2020 Census, the Associated Press reports.
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At a Human Resources Association office in September 2015, while enrolling for workfare, a public assistance program requiring recipients to look for work, she met a representative from Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow.
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But these hardships fall not just on women but on entire families and by extension on communities, particularly when the results of an unwanted pregnancy may lead to the need for public assistance.
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Mr. Banks acknowledged that there was more to be done to cut down the long lines in benefits offices that can fuel tensions between city workers and those who depend on public assistance.
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Since 2000, FEMA has routed $902.1 million in public assistance grants to the parish for 1,000 separate projects, the Times analysis found, an average of $38,637 for each of the 23,348 current residents.
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To be eligible for a program that subsidized her rent, Land was required to attend a class about how to approach landlords, because they tend to resist renting to those on public assistance.
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Over the course of Thursday's debate, several members described the tax as "regressive," unfairly affecting the poor, elderly, and those on public assistance who can't afford even a small uptick in living expenses.
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States that have actively cut health care, education, earned income tax credits, and public assistance funds since the 1980s have been hit hard by declining life expectancy, whereas those that helped their populations haven't.
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"Our legislation gives large, profitable employers a choice: Pay workers a living wage or pay for the public assistance programs their low-wage employees are forced to depend upon," Sanders wrote in a statement.
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Lighthouse residents, some of them disabled and receiving public assistance such as food stamps, spent Tuesday night listening to Michael's howling winds and watching with growing alarm as the storm surge swamped the motel.
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"There's a whole image of the welfare queen driving a Cadillac," Sherman said, referring to Ronald Reagan's infamous description of public assistance recipients who spent the money on luxury goods instead of basic needs.
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Mr. Braswell, who had been gathering signatures to support reforming the "sanctions" process, said he missed a meeting with a worker at the Department of Social Services and was denied his public-assistance check.
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The association of processed cheese with the American working class came to a head during the Reagan administration's war on "welfare queens," the conservative bogeywomen famed for gaming public assistance programs to buy luxuries.
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Last week I introduced a bill to give billionaires like Bezos and the Waltons a choice: pay workers a living wage, or pay for the public assistance your low-wage workers rely on. pic.twitter.
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From August 2015 until last November, Ms. Dolezal received nearly $8,850 in public assistance from Washington State after she had falsely claimed she had little income and needed financial help, according to court documents.
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Trump's executive order allowed local governments that decide they do not have the resources to support refugees in becoming "self-sufficient and free from long-term dependence on public assistance" to turn them away.
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Left-leaning experts, however, say that public assistance programs are crucial to help those going through temporary hard times and to support people who work but don't make enough to survive on their own.
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Since Sandy, Congress has twice amended the law that authorizes federal disaster aid, the Stafford Act, to make it more financially attractive to use public assistance grants to relocate and to rebuild more responsibly.
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Trump issued an executive order in September allowing states that do not have the resources to support refugees in becoming "self-sufficient and free from long-term dependence on public assistance" to turn them away.
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"Our legislation gives large, profitable employers a choice: Pay workers a living wage or pay for the public assistance programs their low-wage employees are forced to depend upon," Sanders said of the proposed law.
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"Half of people earning less than $30,000 who took leave in the past two years and didn't receive full pay said they went on public assistance or took on debt while not working," Horowitz said.
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For example, women who are pregnant and on Medicaid or who need public assistance will not be subject to the new rules during the pregnancy and for 60 days after the birth of the baby.
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The company says there's roughly 25 million people that count among the company's target market (which does not include laborers in jobs that could benefit from low-cost coverage without the hassle of public assistance).
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This results in nearly half a billion dollars in additional economic revenue for the city and state, thanks to, among other things, a reduced use of the criminal justice system and government-funded public assistance.
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People who live in (or lived in at the time of the hurricanes) one of the counties that FEMA declared eligible for "individual assistance" or "public assistance" have until December 31 to buy health insurance.
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Rachel Dolezal, the former head of the civil rights group in Spokane, was charged on Tuesday with theft by welfare fraud and false identity verification in applying for public assistance, NBC affiliate KHQ-TV reports.
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A reliance on public assistance is remarkably common among the Hasidim, explained Lani Santo, the executive director of Footsteps, an organization begun in 2003 to help those who decide to leave the ultra-Orthodox world.
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The idea gained enough political traction that California and 20133 other states passed "crackdown" laws during the welfare reform era of the 1990s, denying mothers on public assistance additional aid if they had more children.
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Instead, Trump's executive order calls on the heads of the departments of Treasury, Agriculture, Commerce, Labor, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Transportation and Education to review public assistance programs within their agencies.
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One of the bills would require permission from the state legislature before the state's executive branch could make waivers or changes to public assistance programs, including work- and drug-testing requirements for "able-bodied" adults.
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Low pay by corporations like McDonald's and Walmart cost taxpayers a whopping $153 billion a year in public assistance to working families, according to a recent study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
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The amount I spend monthly on the phone wouldn't cover even a week of groceries, but for some reason there are those who think I should abandon it or I somehow don't "deserve" public assistance.
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She found the premise of work requirements — the presumed existence of a large number of people on public assistance who should be working and aren't, due to laziness or inertia or whatever — just isn't true.
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Domestic workers are primarily women, specifically women of color, and they are so often underpaid for their work of caring for our families that nearly half of them are on some form of public assistance.
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Domestic workers are primarily women, specifically women of color, and they are so often underpaid for their work of caring for our families that nearly half of them are on some form of public assistance.
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Latin American citizens are less likely to interact with the health system if the issue of immigration is mentioned and less likely to use public assistance programs in areas where immigration enforcement has recently increased.
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The law exempts names and addresses from the state's open records laws, but state agencies are still able to share the information internally to collect child support, public assistance overpayments, and debts, according to nj.com.
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"We believe our public assistance programs should ask able-bodied adults to take steps toward self-sufficiency through work, while also providing comprehensive tools to help them get and keep a job," Walker said Monday.
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That month, bringing in just $594.98 in disability payments from Veterans Affairs, the Childses applied for public assistance, confronting a frustrating labyrinth of city departments and aid applications, according to documents provided by the family.
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It also had major positive impacts on the long-term health of children from poor families, which made them more productive as adults — more likely to pay taxes, less likely to need further public assistance.
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Mr. Trump has also taken steps to restrict eligibility for safety-net benefits, like allowing states to add work requirements to Medicaid and threatening to deny citizenship to legal immigrants who enroll in public assistance.
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The administration has similarly attempted to tie immigration to welfare through its "public charge" rule, which would make a person's ability to receive a green card dependent on whether they used certain public assistance programs.
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As I meet with voters, I hear from people who work in finance and those on public assistance, from retirees at the end of long professional careers and college students just getting underway with theirs.
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For instance, it endorses proposals by conservatives to encourage and strengthen two-parent families, expand school choice and innovation, increase accountability in state and federal spending and strengthen work requirements for those on public assistance.
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The center only works with clients who qualify for public assistance, and, as Development Manager Nate Collins explained, some have difficulty maintaining traditional jobs and their art-making provides them with a stream of income.
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Middle Eastern refugees, according to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), are particularly heavy users of public assistance with 90 percent receiving food stamps and about 70 percent on cash and government healthcare in FY 2013.
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Harris's bill also includes an important nondiscrimination tenet that ensures that individuals who have used or possessed marijuana in the past will still be eligible for public assistance, and won't face negative effects under immigration laws.
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"In New York State, where more than half of bank tellers are paid less than $15, two of every five families of bank tellers must rely on some form of public assistance to make ends meet."
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Then I realized that I needed to brave the world of public assistance in order to make ends meet, as I still couldn't work, and I was still waiting for a decision from Social Security disability.
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And they are concerned the rules give too broad an authority to decide whether someone is likely to need public assistance at any time, giving immigration officials the ability to deny legal status to more people.
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He was one of a throng of new arrivals being processed into the Cuban-Haitian Entrant Programme, under a 1980 law that makes Cubans instantly eligible for public assistance that most immigrants wait years to receive.
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But Democrats warn that by nixing the rule lawmakers will be allowing states the ability to randomly drug test workers who through no fault of their own are unemployed, poor or in need of public assistance.
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Collateral consequences from drug arrests can include the loss of federal financial aid, eviction from public housing, disqualification from a wide range of occupational licenses, loss of the right to vote and denial of public assistance.
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Many medical associations have expressed concern about a Trump administration proposal to make it harder for legal immigrants to get green cards if they get certain kinds of public assistance, including health insurance and food stamps.
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And in 2017, a report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a left-leaning think tank, found that public assistance pulls more whites out of poverty than other racial groups with higher poverty rates.
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First, the justices refused to revive the state's restrictive voter identification law, which did not allow the forms of identification used disproportionately by blacks, including IDs issued to government employees, students and people receiving public assistance.
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If lower-income retirees were able to increase their retirement incomes by as little as $21,400 a year, Oregon could save $228 million on public assistance programs between 248 and 2000, according to the organization's analysis.
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Over 2874 percent of New York City students come from families that are on some form of public assistance, and one in every 2234 students was homeless at some point in the 2569-2353 school year.
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He tried to offer a history lesson Monday to argue that legal immigrants from poor parts of the world aren't being targeted by the new rules disqualifying them from green cards if they seek public assistance.
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The city considers a school "economically stratified" if its economic need index — measured by factors like students' homelessness and eligibility for public assistance — is more than 10 percentage points higher or lower than the city average.
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The Trump administration can move forward with a rule to make it harder for immigrants who rely on public assistance to gain legal status while a court challenge plays out, the Supreme Court ruled on Monday.
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However, taken together, welfare reforms over the past twenty years have contributed to an expanding low-wage labor market where millions of workers have to depend on public assistance programs like SNAP to make ends meet.
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It has similarly attempted to tie immigration to welfare through its "public charge" rule which would make a person's ability to receive a green card dependent on whether or not they used certain public assistance programs.
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FEMA's public assistance program has provided at least $81 billion in this manner to state, territorial and local governments in response to disasters declared since 1992, according to a New York Times analysis of federal data.
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Some conservatives have come to acknowledge that though the push to tie work requirements to public assistance may have made sense in the booming 1990s, the approach might require adjustments to fit the present, less dynamic economy.
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Under the National Voter Registration Act, signed into law by Bill Clinton, US citizens who apply for public assistance (in addition to those who visited the DMV) had to be offered the chance to register to vote.
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In fact, fully 29.50 in 240 Americans who work in the manufacturing sector are receiving some form of public assistance, according to a study released this week by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education.
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A spokesperson for FEMA said in a statement to BuzzFeed News that the agency has provided more than $1.3 billion to Hurricane Maria survivors and obligated more than $2.2 billion to Puerto Rico for Public Assistance projects.
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A similar dynamic occurred with the rollout of the "public charge" rule, one of the administration's long awaited key immigration measures that makes it more difficult for immigrants who rely on public assistance to obtain legal status.
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Arkansas How to register: Apply by mail, a county clerk's office, state revenue office, driver's services, public library, a public assistance or disability agency, military recruitment or Arkansas National Guard office or from a voter registration guide.
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It also obscures the fact that many of the employed are struggling: working two or even three jobs and still forced to rely on public assistance to feed their families and keep a roof over their heads.
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In one section of the NVRA, the law requires states to offer voter registration at both public assistance and disability offices, which gives working class people and those with disabilities additional opportunities to sign up to vote.
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And women who are denied abortion care and subsequently have a child (or another child) are statistically more likely than women who obtained an abortion to be unemployed, living below the poverty line and on public assistance.
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Now, any student who qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch, who is homeless or in foster care, or whose family lives in federally subsidized public housing or receives public assistance will automatically be given a waiver.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Welfare beneficiaries would have to work or get job training under legislation approved by a U.S. Congress committee on Thursday, part of a broader Republican effort to impose work rules on Americans getting public assistance.
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The NVRA streamlined the voter registration process by allowing people to register to vote while obtaining or renewing driver's licenses at Departments of Motor Vehicles or other public assistance centers instead of having to apply by mail.
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The North Carolina law required that certain forms of government-issued photo identification cards be presented by voters, for example allowing driver's licenses, passports and military identification cards but not public assistance cards used disproportionately by minorities.
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Recent research has shown that racial animus — especially the belief that African Americans and other people of color are failing to uphold American values like self-reliance — may have an effect on support for public assistance programs.
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New York City is considered one of the country's most crowded market for sports stadiums and arenas — many of which have been built with sizable public assistance in the form of free land, tax breaks and cash.
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Acting Homeland Security Deputy Secretary Ken Cuccinelli on Monday hailed the Supreme Court's public charge ruling, which makes it more difficult for immigrants who need public assistance to earn legal status while their cases go through court.
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Without the medicine, that ear infection could lead to permanent hearing loss, which in turn could lead to the child becoming an adult with a chronic condition requiring public assistance, placing a further drain on the system.
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Decisions his administration made about how much the state would pay for city shelters, public assistance programs and homelessness-prevention initiatives have left the city shouldering more and more of the burden, even as that burden has swelled.
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The study found that economies are stronger, based on various data points, from higher median household income, less poverty and less reliance on public assistance to higher labor force participation, higher employment-to-population ratios and lower unemployment.
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This clause gave them the leverage to demand public assistance for a planned new stadium, as new arenas like "Jerry's World," Jerry Jones's $1.15 billion AT&T Stadium for the Dallas Cowboys, dwarfed the dome, financially and aesthetically.
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Though they are less than a mile apart, the schools have vastly different populations: Sixty percent of P.S. 8's students are white, and only 3073 percent are from families that receive public assistance, according to state data.
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"This is an effort to essentially be compassionate and not to trap people onto government programmes or to create greater dependency on public assistance," says Seema Verma, the administrator for the Centres for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
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By proving that people can escape the grip of poverty as well as their reliance on public assistance, we can also satisfy the too-often competing political interests of the left and the right in the United States.
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Thousands of New York City residents who are H.I.V.-positive will become eligible for public assistance for housing, transportation and food under a significant expansion of a state program that some activists had feared was being delayed. Gov.
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While the bill itself, designed to punish large employers whose workers received public assistance, was shoddy and misguided, its true purpose was to punish Amazon by making it the face of corporations that underpaid and mistreated its workers.
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The Trump administration on Monday announced a new "public charge" rule expanding the government's ability to reject green cards for immigrants using or deemed likely to use food stamps, housing vouchers, Medicaid, and other forms of public assistance.
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Weissmann Junkets by The Hill Newspaper on Scribd More than half of respondents in a new Hill-HarrisX poll said legal immigrants who receive public assistance such as food stamps or Medicaid should be eligible for green cards.
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Some of the early results of these evidence-based programs, such as the WorkAdvance program, are strikingly favorable: nearly 20 percent increases in earnings for participants, including for the long-term unemployed, and reduced use of public assistance.
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Earlier this month, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-described democratic socialist, proposed a bill in Congress called the "Stop BEZOS" Act, which would make large corporations pay workers more or pay for public assistance programs like Medicaid.
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That's why Flourish has gravitated toward businesses like Aspiration, which helps people bank more ethically — promoting sustainable investment portfolios and offering pay-your-own-fee for services; and Propel, which helps American consumers manage their public assistance benefits.
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Today, states are mandated by federal law to make voter registration opportunities available at Department of Motor Vehicles offices, public assistance agencies and through other means under the National Voter Registration Act, known as the Motor-Voter law.
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A quarter of part-time college academics (many of whom are adjuncts, though it's not uncommon for adjuncts to work 223 hours a week or more) are said to be enrolled in public assistance programs such as Medicaid.
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Under one proposal, the administration would broaden the range of public assistance programs — such as Medicaid, food stamps and housing vouchers — used to determine whether immigrants seeking to become legal residents would be "public charges" on the country.
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For all the focus on timeless themes, a play that features a modern Davos-like gathering of billionaires, paeans to wealth and competition, and pointed criticisms of taxation and public assistance resonates differently today than five years ago.
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Cell coverage and power have been restored in most places affected by the hurricane, according to the state's division of emergency management, but Disaster Recovery Centers remain open and public assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency continues.
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This figure is calculated by examining what it costs a family to live at the level of basic need (accounting for food, housing, transportation and child care expenses), without public assistance, state by state and city by city.
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The administration changed the so-called public charge rule so that immigrants wanting a green card or to come to the country must prove they are unlikely to ever need public assistance, such as access to health care.
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With wages flat, the minimum wage low, and the current overtime salary threshold below the poverty line for a family of four, people trying to make a living from work are swelling public assistance and private charity rolls.
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The administration announced in August that it would revise the so-called public charge rule, which allows officials to deny permanent legal status, also known as a green card, to immigrants who are likely to need public assistance.
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Last week, Judge Biggs ordered the state to give provisional ballots to voters who said they tried to register at state motor vehicle offices, public assistance centers and other agencies, but whose names were not on the rolls.
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But if confirmed by the Senate, he would enter public service with a background like few other cabinet officials in history, shaped profoundly by a childhood when public assistance meant survival and public housing was all around him.
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For decades, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers have focussed on jobs, public assistance, parenting, and mass incarceration as the central problems faced by the American poor, overlooking just how deeply housing is implicated in the creation of poverty.
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We'll examine how the opioid crisis has impacted Washington, how Trump is trying to put his mark on the country's public assistance programs, as well as an update on Utah's effort to get Medicaid expansion on the ballot.
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In addition, Head Start increased economic self-sufficiency in adulthood by almost 4 percent of a standard deviation — gains driven largely by a 12-percent reduction in adult poverty and a 29-percent reduction in public assistance receipt.
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When she looked around the public assistance office where she applied for disability, she saw things she might have assembled with her own still-calloused hands: metal cabinets, cubicle walls, the panels concealing the wiring for computers and phones.
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Acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli defended a new Trump administration rule that will force immigrants to prove they won't go on public assistance — and threw a few digs at reporters while he was at it.
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The four of us had just lived through my parents' traumatic divorce, were still in the midst of a protracted custody battle and in the previous years had gone from a black-bourgeois life to living on public assistance.
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This welcome measure highlights the absurdity of a system that encourages Americans with a disability to remain entirely dependent on public assistance, regardless of their capacity and desire to work, through perverse disincentives that punish self-sufficiency and earning.
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"Disabled people are some of the highest users of public assistance due to how expensive it is to live in the United States with a disability or chronic medical condition (known as the disability tax)," she told The Hill.
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As a result, 15 years later, 65 percent of the residents were white (compared with 503 percent in all public housing in the city), and 3 percent were receiving public assistance (compared with 27 percent in public housing citywide).
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This program is primarily for public assistance recipients who have exceeded the five-year limit set up by 1990s welfare reform, and looks to lower the numbers that utilize New York City shelters, which cost taxpayers more than $1 billion annually.
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DeVos supports both charter schools and school vouchers, but vouchers — which allow parents to opt out of public schools entirely by providing public assistance to parents to send their children to private and sometimes religious schools — are more politically polarized.
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The company has been recently targeting this group of consumers, including with the earlier launch of Amazon Cash (a way to shop without a bank card), and most recently, access to discounted Prime memberships for those on government public assistance programs.
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One judge ruled against the President's emergency declaration to build a border wall, while three others tore apart the administration's rule that would make it more difficult for immigrants who rely on public assistance to get green cards or visas.
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Ms. Teixeira, who has not worked in several years because of illnesses that include Graves' disease, psoriatic arthritis, sciatica, migraines and kidney stones, receives $1,135 a month in Supplemental Security Income and other public assistance, and $509 in food stamps.
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About the only time it does make sense, he says, is when a person is trying to spend down assets in order to qualify for public assistance such as Medicaid—a frequent scenario when someone is going into a nursing home.
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Under a rule unveiled this week, the administration can reject applicants for temporary or permanent visas if they fail to meet high enough income standards or if they receive public assistance such as welfare, food stamps, public housing or Medicaid.
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Over the past two decades, as the surrounding area evolved from a neighborhood of bodegas and discount stores, where half the residents received public assistance, into one of multimillion-dollar apartments and popular restaurants, J.H.S. 250 was largely left behind.
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By contrast, at P.S. 8, in Brooklyn Heights, where 16 percent of the students are on public assistance and 3 percent are not proficient in English, 64 percent of students passed the reading tests, and 63 percent passed the math tests.
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Between 2009 and 2014, with the help of a private funder, Colorado managed to cut births and abortions by about 50% among teens and 20% among women between 20 and 24, while saving the state nearly $70 million in public assistance.
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In 2628, New York State Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi proposed a rent subsidy for families on public assistance that would enable them to stay in their homes by bridging the gap between the typical rent allotment and usual fair market rents.
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Sheryl Sandberg is Facebook's Chief Operating Officer and the founder of Lean In and Option B. Shirley Chisholm By Barbara Lee When I first met Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, I was a young, single mom on public assistance and food stamps.
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Her savings from her job at a Belk department store ran out a couple of months later, and she returned to New York, where she went on public assistance — a monthly allowance of $280 in food stamps and $140 in cash.
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Emergency aid for state and local governments ($175 billion): "States are expected to be hammered by the economic crunch, both with rising costs as people seek additional public assistance and lower tax revenue because of falling business activity," our colleague writes.
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The move could force millions of poor immigrants who rely on public assistance for food and shelter to make a difficult choice between accepting financial help and seeking a green card to live and work legally in the United States.
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According to a 2018 report from the nonpartisan Fiscal Policy Institute, the economy could lose as much as $33.8 billion and 230,000 jobs if 35% of immigrants who use public assistance such as Medicaid and food stamps leave those programs.
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The lender has so far been able to garnish $4,133 from her paychecks — a drain that at one point forced Ms. Harris, a single mother who lives in the Bronx, to go on public assistance to support her two sons.
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Even before the policy went into force, it discouraged immigrants and citizens in immigrant families from seeking public assistance they qualify for, such as Medicaid, food stamps, free or reduced-price school meals, or housing help, according to immigration analysts.
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In interviews with economists and organizations that promote UBI in the United States, experts said Yang's version could do more harm than good because some Americans would need to choose between accepting $28500,6900 a month and receiving certain public assistance benefits.
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The manuals reliably twist and spin a few Bible passages to prove that God opposes gun regulations, the Affordable Care Act, tax increases, public assistance, climate science—in other words, pretty much every position associated with the Republican Party's opponents.
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Tom Wong, at the University of California, San Diego, found that sanctuary counties tended to have a lower percent of people in poverty or on public assistance, greater workforce participation, higher median incomes and lower unemployment than non-sanctuary counties.
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The daughter of impoverished Jewish immigrants from Poland, she grew up humbly in the Bronx, sometimes on public assistance, but excelled in school — winning scholarships, finding a mentor in a future Nobel laureate and earning advanced degrees at leading universities.
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The majority on the 9th Circuit panel said the Trump administration was likely to prevail in its arguments that it had legal authority to issue regulations to broaden the definition of what constituted someone likely to become dependent on public assistance.
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Instead, FEMA spent more than $5 million in public assistance grants to clear debris, build a new town hall and school, repair other buildings and replace fire trucks, a garbage truck, even a riding lawn mower, the agency's records show.
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"Frankly, the American people are sick and tired of subsidizing the greed of some of the largest and most profitable corporations in this country," Sanders added during his remarks, noting that some Walmart employees rely on public assistance programs such as Medicaid.
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SVP flyers at the rally said Switzerland had been flooded with EU citizens who were responsible for traffic jams, overfilled hospitals and school classes, exploding costs for health and public assistance, and increasing numbers of jobless Swiss over the age of 50.
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Meanwhile, judges in New York, California and Washington state blocked implementation of a Trump administration rule that would make it more difficult for immigrants who rely on public assistance to obtain legal status, just days before the regulation was set to take effect.
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The investigator was aware that Diallo had previously made public statements that she received welfare, so he conducted a review of her public assistance records and found she had reported receiving only $300 per month in gifts from friends, according to the documents.
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Sanders, in particular, has been relentless in his criticism of Amazon over the last few months, proposing a bill that would tax the company as a penalty for having workers who need food stamps and other public assistance to make ends meet.
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The two women wove the disparate threads of their exposure to coding, knowledge of public assistance and awareness of the red tape that people were dealing with in Chicago and wove it into the tapestry that would become the mRelief set of services.
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Trump administration rules that could deny green cards to immigrants who use Medicaid, food stamps, housing vouchers or other forms of public assistance are going into effect, potentially making it more difficult for some to get legal status in the United States.
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Over the last 260 years, median rent has risen 21969 percent, wages and public assistance have stagnated, employment has dropped, and low-income housing landlords have professionalized—forming associations, lobbying for friendly policies, and capitalizing on a market that increasingly favors them.
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In fact, half of all home health aides rely on public assistance to make ends meet "No matter how much people are saints and love the job, they can't survive," says Bill Dombi, President of the National Association for Home Care & Hospice.
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After Luke Waid, 29, a laid-off aerospace welder, found out his baby girl, Sophia, had tested high for lead, a public assistance case manager threatened to call Child Protective Services and have Sophia removed from their home because of the lead exposure.
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Many other high cost of living states have higher minimum wages, and every year Virginia and New Jersey taxpayers shell out billions of dollars in public assistance for low-wage workers, many of whom work at profitable companies like McDonald's or Walmart.
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The NPR interview comes after the Trump administration announced that it was seeking to implement a new "public charge" rule that could reject green cards to immigrants using or deemed likely to use public assistance benefits like food stamps, housing vouchers, or Medicaid.
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Immigration patterns that result in about half of all immigrant-headed household relying on at least one form of public assistance, the rise of identity politics, and other immigration-related phenomena all favor the long-term political fortunes of the Democratic Party.
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The Trump administration lent credence to such fears in a policy announcement last September: If people seeking U.S. residency used public assistance programs, then Citizenship and Immigration Services would score that against them when their applications for green cards came under review.
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It'll do that by requiring immigration officers reviewing green card applications to assess how much money in public benefits the applicant has used, and identify people who are "more likely than not" to rely on public assistance once they become a permanent resident.
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According to data from the Census, in 2016 53 percent of the individuals who registered at public assistance agencies were women of color (and 69 percent were women), compared with 15 percent of those who registered at the Department of Motor Vehicles.
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One person quoted in the study described applying for public assistance benefits, something many homeless families do, as "death by appointment," leading to obligations that can consume much of the day and make it difficult to get children where they need to be.
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Since then, he had lived on public assistance in suburban Washington, most recently in a subsidized townhouse in Oakton, Va. There he sold honorary knighthoods and had continued to harbor hopes of returning home to reclaim the tasseled headdress that was his crown.
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In the last week, Ms. Headley has become a cause célèbre for New Yorkers who depend on food stamps and cash public assistance and who say they are often met with hostility and are sometimes threatened with arrest at city benefits offices.
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For the Méndez family, the chance to have electric service again mostly means not having to spend $50 a week on fuel for their generator, an expense that Jazmín Méndez, a stay-at-home mother who relies on public assistance, can hardly afford.
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Pro-immigrant activists predict that poor immigrants will immediately begin withdrawing from public assistance programs — even at the risk of losing needed assistance for food, shelter and medicine — out of a fear that they will be denied green cards and will be deported.
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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act and Higher Education Amendments, two other Clinton-era policies passed in 1996 and 1998, respectively, made it more difficult for people with felony drug convictions to receive food stamps, public assistance and college financial aid.
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Other related research disputes the idea that public assistance undermines attributes like motivation, another common argument of welfare critics like Paul Ryan and Mr. Carson (he has also said that public housing shouldn't be too comfortable, lest it induce long-term dependency).
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BOBBY WATTS Executive Director, Care for the Homeless New York To the Editor: Yes, it's certainly important to expand our safety net with increased rent support so that those New Yorkers relying on public assistance may finally find a way out of shelter.
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Assemblyman Andrew Hevesi, a Queens Democrat, has proposed a statewide rental assistance program that would help families receiving public assistance stay in their homes by bridging the gap between the rent subsidies they now get from the state and typical fair-market rents.
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And yet just a third of those households were considered poor by measures used by the federal government — measures typically used as qualifiers for certain kinds of public assistance and ones that do not account for family composition among many other variables.
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On Thursday, CNN's Andrew Kaczynski reported that Higbie made a series of offensive statements during various radio appearances since 2013, with many of his comments squarely aimed at African Americans, women, military vets with PTSD, Muslims, immigrants, and those who have used public assistance.
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READ: Ruling against national emergency funds for border wall Immigration green card regulations -- Southern District of New York Three federal judges blocked efforts to make it more difficult for immigrants who rely on public assistance to obtain legal status -- the so-called "public charge" rule.
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Reagan told America the story of Linda Taylor, a Chicago con artist who had, in fact, cheated the government of $22012,21993 by 1976, using four aliases (though he claimed she used "80 names"), wearing a fur while driving a Cadillac to receive public assistance.
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Most of the better units have been outside North Minneapolis, but the landlords have asked that they earn two or three times the annual rent, far more than they can cover with money from public assistance and her job at a beauty supply shop.
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In May, Sanders and Khanna introduced the Stop BEZOS Act to tax large companies for employees who receive public assistance like food stamps to pressure companies to increase their minimum wage (in October, Amazon increased its minimum wage to $15 an hour for US employees).
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If you are interested in voting, scroll down to your state or territory and find out how to register: Alabama How to register: You can register online, or you can show up to your local board of registrars or any offices providing public assistance.
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In a complaint filed on Monday in federal court in Houston, the churches said they would like to apply for aid but it would be "futile" because FEMA's public assistance program "categorically" excludes their claims, violating their constitutional right to freely exercise their religion.
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According to the network, the plan would also place a higher burden on immigrants who have received public assistance for taking care of disabled family members and children, even if those family members are already U.S. citizens, when applying for future changes of status.
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If the world has the impression that the death toll in Puerto Rico is low -- as Trump highlighted in his October 203 press conference -- then donations and public assistance are less likely to flow toward Puerto Rico, said Klinenberg, the sociologist at New York University.
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Ontario intends to provide a basic income to 22002,214 people in three different communities as part of an experiment that seeks to evaluate whether providing more money to people on public assistance or low incomes will make a significant material difference in their lives.
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The Trump administration on Saturday announced a new proposal called the "Inadmissibly on Public Charge Grounds" that would deny green cards to immigrants who have legally used public assistance as part of Trump's overall trend of cracking down on both legal and illegal immigration.
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Public assistance grants from the Federal Emergency Management Agency currently require structures to be built at or above the "100-year" flood elevation: the level that waters would reach in a flood that had a 183 percent chance of occurring in any given year.
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Acting USCIS director Cuccinelli says new rule allowing Trump administration to deny green cards to legal immigrants who benefit from public assistance isn't targeting Latinos b/c "if we had been having this conversation 100 years ago, it would have applied to more Italians." pic.twitter.
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In the complaint filed on Monday in federal court in Houston, the Texas churches said they would like to apply for aid but it would be "futile" because FEMA's public assistance program "categorically" excluded their claims, violating their constitutional right to freely exercise their religion.
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States won't just be able to refuse refugees from certain nations, such as Syria, but they will be able to turn away all refugees if they do not have the resources to become "self-sufficient and free from long-term dependence on public assistance."
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"Under the President's major disaster declaration issued for the U.S. Virgin Islands on September 7, 2017, Federal funding was made available for Public Assistance, Hazard Mitigation, and Other Needs Assistance at 75 percent Federal funding of total eligible costs," the office said in a statement.
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Another alarming point: Job growth from the oil-producing states (Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana and Oklahoma) is now lagging the rest of the nation as a whole, and hard times in Texas mean public assistance expenditures in fiscal 2016 are running ahead of what was previously forecast.
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Some experts say the rule could cut legal immigration in half by denying visas and permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of people if they fail to meet high enough income standards or if they receive public assistance such as welfare, food stamps, public housing or Medicaid.
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They could have requested a registration form by phone or by mail; downloaded it off the Internet and submitted it by mail; or completed it at a government agency such as the department of motor vehicles, public assistance office, disability office, or Supervisor of Elections office.
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"At a time when too many Walmart workers face stagnant wages and tens of thousands still qualify for public assistance, is paying your C.E.O. 21,2000 times the median employee really the best investment for Walmart?" said Randy Parraz, director of Making Change at Walmart, a labor group.
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Cast your vote on which of the following three questions you would like our pollsters to answer: More than half of respondents in a new Hill-HarrisX poll said legal immigrants who receive public assistance such as food stamps or Medicaid should be eligible for green cards.
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"At a time when too many Walmart workers face stagnant wages and tens of thousands still qualify for public assistance, is paying your C.E.O. 1,188 times the median employee really the best investment for Walmart?" said Randy Parraz, director of Making Change at Walmart, a labor group.
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More discreetly, Stephen Miller has reportedly pressed Department of Homeland Security lawyers to finalize a new measure that could penalize citizenship and green-card applicants for having lawfully received public assistance like health care subsidies or food stamps, practically inviting Democrats to defend immigrant welfare recipients.
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North Carolina quickly adopted dozens of changes in a new law requiring voters to show a photo identification, like a driver's license or passport, and it rejected forms of identification used disproportionately by black people, including IDs issued to government employees, students and people receiving public assistance.
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Around two-thirds of the immigrants who obtained permanent legal status from 000 to 20183 could be blocked from doing so under the new rule, which denies green cards to those who are likely to need public assistance, according to a study by the Migration Policy Institute.
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The ruling decided earlier Monday will allow the Department of Homeland Security to refuse entry or legal status to those who will likely require public assistance, specifically cash and noncash benefits like food or housing, for more than 12 months in a three-year time period.
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Represented by the Legal Aid Society and Hughes Hubbard & Reed, the women were seeking increases in the Family Eviction Prevention Supplement for families with children who are under the threat of eviction and another benefit, known as the "shelter allowance," for families with children on public assistance.
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It's long overdue for our immigration laws to be enforced and additional measures put in place such as mandatory E-Verify, an entry/exit system, tough sanctions on employers, an end to birthright citizenship for anchor babies, and all public assistance to discourage further illegal immigration.
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Rachel Dolezal, who legally changed her name to Nkechi Diallo in 2016, was charged this week with one count of first-degree theft by welfare fraud and one count of second-degree perjury for making a false verification for public assistance, according to court documents obtained by KHQ.
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The estate says that's ironic since Disney goes to great lengths to protect its copyrighted characters ... citing how Disney once sued a couple on public assistance for $1 mil when they dressed up as an orange tiger and blue donkey that looked too close to Tigger and Eeyore.
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For instance, the largest share of income for households aged 65 and older in the lowest income quintile – those with income less than $13,153 – comes from Social Security benefits (80.7%), cash public assistance provides the second largest share (9.5%) and income from earnings, assets and pensions is just 7.8%.
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The second tier was made up of means-tested public assistance programs that included what was originally called the "Aid to Dependent Children" program and was subsequently renamed the Aid to Families with Dependent Children in the 1962 Public Welfare Amendments to the SSA under the Kennedy administration.
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The corporate form as originally designed was a highly successful means of pragmatically partnering the public and private sectors to provide transportation infrastructure, energy grids, sewage and water systems, schools and libraries, public assistance and other social services in a world of scarce capital and unpredictable public revenue.
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Some experts say the new rule could cut legal immigration in half by denying visas and permanent residency to hundreds of thousands of people if they fail to meet high enough income standards or if they receive public assistance such as welfare, food stamps, public housing or Medicaid.
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All are challenging a Trump administration rule that would deny or revoke visas for legal immigrants who might become a public charge because they fail to make enough money or because they receive or might in the future receive public assistance such as welfare, food stamps or public housing.
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Once known as the "machine tool capital of America" due to its leadership in the precision manufacturing sector, Springfield now resembles many other struggling post-manufacturing towns in America, with 30 percent of the population on public assistance and about half of children on free and reduced lunch programs.
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Just under half of Hispanics have any form of health insurance, the lowest of any racial demographic in the US.Health policy experts interpreted the decrease as partially the result of a chilling effect of the Trump administration's efforts to restrict access to public assistance, the Washington Post reported.
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Under the Trump administration's new rule, immigration officers reviewing green card applications will assess how much money in public benefits the applicant has used, and identify people who are "more likely than not" to rely on public assistance for more than 12 months within a 36-month period.
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A week before Mr. Trump entered the White House, FEMA also unveiled a proposal for a "public assistance deductible," in which states would be responsible for a greater portion of the cost of disaster recovery unless they took steps like enacting stricter building codes to limit exposure to disasters.
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"I want to relay to you, in as deeply personal a way I can, the heartfelt appreciation of my 100,000 United team members and their families for this vital public assistance to keep America and United flying for you," Munoz wrote in an email sent to Business Insider.
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"An alien who depends on public assistance for necessities such as food and shelter for extended periods may qualify as a 'public charge' even if that assistance is not provided through cash benefits or does not provide the alien's sole or primary means of support," Mr. Francisco wrote.
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The FGA aimed to send decision-makers back to their respective states, or the nation's capital, with fresh zeal to restrict access to public assistance programs designed for low-income people, including Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program.
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Over the past two decades, FEMA has seen a 212 percent increase in its Public Assistance Grant Program, the largest source of federal disaster assistance to state and local governments, from an annual average of $1.8 billion from 1996 to 21625 to $2900 billion per year from 220006 to 2202.
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One of them, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, introduced a bill in January that would end welfare payments and public assistance for Cuban arrivals unless they can prove that they faced political persecution back home—though he stopped short of suggesting changes to the entry privileges in the Cuban Adjustment Act.
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Her crimes were much more extensive than fraud — she was investigated for homicide, kidnapping, and baby trafficking, among other crimes — but Reagan's description of her contributed to the stereotype that black women con their way into and then improperly use public assistance, a stereotype that continues to affect discussions today.
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Poorer people are more likely not only to be involved in the criminal-justice system but also to be on public assistance and to get their mental-health or addiction treatment at publicly funded clinics — all sources of the data vacuumed up by Vaithianathan's and Putnam-Hornstein's predictive-analytics algorithm.
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At the end of the five years, only those individuals who maintain a clean criminal record, avoid reliance on public assistance, pay back taxes with interest, and demonstrate continued employment, educational records or proof of ongoing service or an honorable discharge can apply to adjust their status to permanent residency.
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She began her career in law enforcement shortly after high school, working her up from a dispatcher to county jailer and then peace officer before changing her career to social services as a disabled adult jobs counselor, state JOBS program case worker, and eligibility specialist, assisting clients in applying for public assistance programs.
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Imposing a means test on free book borrowing at public libraries would, similarly, cut against the civic purpose of the library, even though many families who take advantage of library services are in the top third of the income distribution and don't strictly need public assistance to get our hands on books.
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"Beyond retraining, a range of policies can help, including unemployment insurance, public assistance in finding work, and portable benefits that follow workers between jobs" as well as "[p]ossible solutions to supplement incomes, such as more comprehensive minimum wage policies, universal basic income, or wage gains tied to productivity," the researchers wrote.
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But Monday morning's news of the administration's new ruling lays bare its full cruelty and will affect millions of legal immigrants (including thousands of Indians) who will be punished for making use of public assistance programs, such as public housing and food stamps (no matter how temporarily) they are legally entitled to.
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Last year, the Trump administration announced that if immigrants used public assistance, such as a Section 8 housing voucher, they could be denied a green card, forcing some immigrants who are legally in the country to choose between their own welfare and the ability to live and work in the United States.
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To garner support for such a measure, the White House made several false claims about immigrants and their impact on the welfare system: The new bill doesn't do much more than current laws do to prevent immigrants from collecting welfare — in large part because it's actually quite hard for immigrants to get public assistance.
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Across the table, Mike Bunker, the chair of the local Democratic Party, and Laurie Bishop, who's currently running for reelection to the Montana House, detailed the struggles the community's faced over the last year, as the state slashed budgets for social services, including the Office of Public Assistance, mental health care, and job services.
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Public Assistance Grants and Hazard Mitigation Grants (HMGP) from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and disaster-recovery Community Development Block Grants (CDBG-DR) from the US Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) can provide disaster-impacted state and local governments with hundreds of millions of dollars or more to build infrastructure, businesses and homes.
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Still, it found students in the intervention program did amazingly better than the control group — including being four times likelier to graduate from college, five times less likely to have been on public assistance, significantly reduced chances of being arrested or charged with a crime, and significant improvements in adult math and reading ability.
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The money raised benefits eight organizations: Brooklyn Community Services Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens Children's Aid Community Service Society of New York FPWA International Rescue Committee UJA-Federation of New York The organizations spend the money at their discretion, often to cover gaps in public assistance.
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For instance, in my co-authored paper using the synthetic control approach to identify the effect of "Right to Work" laws on income inequality, we used more than 10 variables ranging from per capita incomes to state tax rates to the number of people receiving public assistance to match and construct the synthetic state.
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"It's something the state should maybe take into consideration for those of us who are really struggling, even though it's probably the last thing on their minds," said Lakeisha Adams, a 39-year-old Queens mother of four who relies on public assistance, and says she has had to borrow money from relatives to buy menstrual products.
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The difference between a common good and a public assistance program is the difference between the nearly $700 billion a year America spends on universal K-12 education and the roughly $10 billion a year America spends on subsidizing child care for lower-income families (and still only reaching less than 15 percent of that population).
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Cooper, hoping to obtain public assistance for the state, also on Monday requested that President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE expedite a declaration of an emergency for North Carolina.
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The new proposal would include programs like some forms of Medicaid, the Children's Health Insurance Program, food stamps, subsidized health care under Obamacare, and Head Start education programs as demerits against an immigrant's application to be in the US. Some forms of public assistance would still be exempt, such as emergency disaster relief or school lunch programs.
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All donations go directly to eight beneficiary organizations: Brooklyn Community Services Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens Children's Aid Community Service Society of New York FPWA International Rescue Committee UJA-Federation of New York The organizations spend the money at their discretion, often to cover gaps in public assistance.
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The Census Bureau currently includes all cash income, which encompasses not just wages but also: Unemployment compensation, workers' compensation, Social Security, Supplemental Security Income, public assistance, veterans' payments, survivor benefits, pension or retirement income, interest, dividends, rents, royalties, income from estates, trusts, educational assistance, alimony, child support, assistance from outside the household, and other miscellaneous sources.
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Resettlement agencies get federal funding for each refugee they work with to find a permanent place for the refugee to live; enroll children in school and parents in English-language classes; find jobs for men and women who may not speak English or be well-educated; and help refugees sign up for public assistance to help ends meet.
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Along with that merger, the proposal also calls for the creation of a single food safety agency under the Department of Agriculture and moving the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, from the USDA to Health and Human Services, which would be renamed the Department of Health and Public Welfare and be refocused more broadly on public assistance programs.
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This week, The Atlantic uncovered emails from Department of Homeland official Ian M. Smith showing that he was friendly with white nationalists in DC. Smith subsequently resigned, but the Washington Post reported that as an immigration policy analyst he had worked on some of the administration's most high-profile and controversial initiatives, including refugees and penalizing immigrants who used public assistance.
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" In a statement to The Hill, Lewis's office accused CNN of being "on a mission to elect Democrats by deliberately ignoring Lewis' record in office" and added the network's reporting was "an orchestrated attempt at making anyone who supports reducing illegitimacy or crime in minority communities, Voter ID laws and work requirements for public assistance back off their public policy positions.
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The recent blog in The Hill criticizing Republican Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen's support for a path to a $28500 minimum wage is just another example of corporate special interests' influence in a false narrative that would have us believe that it's acceptable for hard-working people in America to live in poverty and be forced to supplement their income with public assistance.
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It held to this position even when the context would cause most reasonable people to suspect discrimination: Texas in the 1960s paying predominately white categories of public assistance recipients far more than the category including most African-American and Hispanic families or a 99.95 percent white suburb refusing to allow a religious order to building integrated low-income housing on its property.
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Ro KhannaRohit (Ro) KhannaKing incites furor with abortion, rape and incest remarks San Jose mayor proposes mandatory liability insurance for gun owners Democrats give cold shoulder to Warren wealth tax MORE (D), introduced the "Stop Bezos Act" last month, a piece of legislation named after Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos meant to punish large companies whose workers receive public assistance due to low wages.
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It is a wake-up call for this country for local and state elected officials to give their governors and their emergency management directors, you know, the full budgets that they need to be fully staffed, to design rainy day funds, to have your own standalone individual assistance and public assistance programs," Long told CBS's Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation.
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Total public assistance grants: $37,005,951.78 Total Individual & Households Program dollars approved: $43,258,814.89 How long they will stay: Years The FEMA official said there is "no hard deadline" on phasing out efforts on the island, and stressed the difference between the "response" phase, which happens directly after a disaster, and the "recovery" phrase, which begins when immediate needs, like power and clean water, have been restored.
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The Trump administration's recently finalized "public charge" rule — which would make use of certain public assistance programs by immigrants grounds for denying lawful permanent residence — extends a series of policy changes that could negatively affect the health of both legal and undocumented immigrants in the U.S. Why it matters: Health insurance, nutrition benefits and housing assistance are all linked to health outcomes, particularly in children.
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When Mr. Giuliani was mayor, I had to watch in frustration as he made up outlandish stories about those on public assistance; upended — often destroying — the lives of black people simply trying to walk the streets of the city; castigated those suffering from drug addiction; attacked those who could not defend themselves; and aggressively grabbed credit for whatever he could convince people he deserved.
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With DHS Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen out of the way, and other officials in the department expected to be pushed out, White House senior adviser Stephen Miller hopes to accelerate or pursue more aggressive enforcement policies, including one that allows children to be detained more than 20 days and another that would deny green cards to immigrants who've received public assistance or are deemed likely to do so.
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Trump issued a proclamation earlier this month barring immigrants who do not have health insurance and cannot afford to pay medical care costs from getting visas of almost any kind to enter the US. He issued another executive order in September allowing states that do not have the resources to support refugees in becoming "self-sufficient and free from long-term dependence on public assistance" to turn them away.
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A Monmouth University Poll released Monday found that 54 percent of respondents said they perceived the caravan as some kind of threat, while 70 percent said the same migrants should be able to qualify for asylum in the U.S. — Julia Manchester More than half of respondents in a new Hill-HarrisX poll said legal immigrants who receive public assistance such as food stamps or Medicaid should be eligible for green cards.
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" Cuccinelli, who announced a rule this week limiting green cards for migrants in need or deemed likely to become in need of public assistance, drew criticism this week for claiming that the famed Emma Lazarus poem on the Statue of Liberty -- which reads "give me your tired, your poor" -- should be reimagined with the phrase "who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a public charge.
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The Supreme Court has helped pave the way for the Trump administration to institute a so-called public charge rule to penalize immigrants who rely on public assistance, making it more difficult for low-income immigrants trying to come or remain legally in the United States (for the fear they may become a public charge) and perpetuating a long-debunked myth that immigrants are a drain on the system.
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President Donald Trump issued a proclamation earlier this month barring immigrants who do not have health insurance and cannot afford to pay medical care costs from getting visas of almost any kind to enter the US. And he issued another executive order in September allowing states that do not have the resources to support refugees in becoming "self-sufficient and free from long-term dependence on public assistance" to turn them away.
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During his time in office, the department ramped up the return of some migrants to Mexico to await immigration proceedings, rolled out the public charge rule, which makes it more difficult for immigrants who rely on public assistance to obtain legal status and has since been blocked by three federal judges, and implemented nationwide restrictions on asylum claims in the US. McAleenan was asked to step into the role of acting secretary after the forced resignation of his predecessor Kirstjen Nielsen in April.
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The problem is that while the regulation itself is complex — and in some ways more moderate than earlier versions of the proposal leaked to Vox and the Washington Post earlier this year — the message that immigrants are likely to receive is simple: that they shouldn't use public benefits if they want to stay in the US. Local service providers (from public assistance clinics to pediatricians) are already seeing this "chilling effect" just based on rumors of the rule and the Trump administration's generally hawkish tone toward immigrants.
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