Monthly Archives: July 2012
- CHN: The Usefulness of Cliffs: The Clock Keeps Ticking on Expiring Tax Cuts and Looming Spending Reductions
If Congress does nothing, a lot will happen at the beginning of 2013. The Bush-era tax cuts and subsequent improvements will expire, with everyone paying higher income taxes. Close to $110 billion in spending cuts will be triggered, split evenly across the Pentagon and domestic and international programs. Simply allowing all of this to take Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations, Tax Policy Comments Off - CHN: House Committee Passes Farm Bill with Deep Cut to SNAP
On July 11 the House Agriculture Committee voted 35-11 to pass its five-year bill to reauthorize agriculture and nutrition programs (H.R. 6083). The bill contains a $16.5 billion cut to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps). The cut to SNAP would result in two to three million people being denied Read More »
Posted in Food and Nutrition, SNAP Comments Off - CHN: Ideological Buttons Pushed in House Subcommittee’s Labor-HHS-Education Funding Bill
If the Labor-Health and Human Services-Education appropriations bill is often a vehicle for right wing ideology, this year it’s a monster truck, not a Mini-Cooper. The FY 2013 spending bill approved by the House Labor-HHS-Ed Appropriations Subcommittee (draft bill DHAPPS 1308) on July 18 de-funds the health care law, piles on many anti-labor restrictions, eliminates funding Read More »
Posted in Early Childhood Education, Education and Youth Policy Comments Off - CHN: Obama Administration Seeks Proposals from States to Improve Employment Outcomes for TANF Participants; Republicans in Congress Say No
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services will consider requests from states for pilot projects to test new ways to meet the employment goals of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). HHS will issue waivers of existing TANF rules to states that submit plans with specific measurable performance targets leading to at least 20 Read More »
Comments Off - CHN: Farm Bill Passes in Senate; House Committee Action Expected July 11
The Senate passed the bill to reauthorize agriculture and nutrition programs (S. 3240) on June 21. Anti-hunger advocates succeeded in beating back amendments to make drastic cuts or structural changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps). But they were unsuccessful in efforts to restore a $4.5 billion SNAP cut Read More »
Posted in Budget and Appropriations, Food and Nutrition, SNAP Comments Off - CHN: Student Loan Rates Prevented from Doubling; New Loan Changes Take Effect
On Friday June 29 the Senate cleared a bipartisan agreement that prevented student loan rates from doubling on July 1 and reauthorized highway, public transit and surface transportation programs for two years. Senators voted 74-19 to clear the measure for the President’s signature just minutes after the House approved the report for the legislation (H.R. Read More »
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