Children’s Monitor Highlights
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Administration Budget Sets Up Cuts And Debates for 2020
The Administration released its FY 2021 budget on Monday, February 10, 2020. This year’s budget, A Budget for America’s Future, proposes a number of human service cuts and human service funding increases but overall includes
Administration Proposes Changes to Family First Act
The Administration’s budget proposes a clarification under the Family First Act, the relationship between al Qualified Residential Treatment Programs (QRTP), and the definition of Institutions for Mental Diseases (IMD) under the Medicaid program. Additionally, the
CAPTA and Adoption Programs Not Targeted For Reductions
The Administration proposes the same level of funding for the two CAPTA-related grants for FY 2021 with an increase in one of the grants. State Grants would be funded at $90 million, Community-Based Child Abuse
Administration Proposes Billions in Medicaid Cuts
Building on their Thursday, January 30, 2020, their Medicaid Healthy Adult Opportunity waiver proposal, the Administration proposes cuts to Medicaid of $920 billion over the next ten years. The reductions are the result of various
#100YEARSOFCWLA Looking Back At History
Joyce Black testified before the Senate Finance Committee on March 16, 1982. She stated that “children are barely surviving the fiscal year 1982 cuts and the proposed 1983 cuts will have disastrous results.” Black spoke
Administration Proposes Elimination of SSBG and Cuts to TANF
The President’s budget again proposes the elimination of the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG), eliminating the $1.7 billion entitlement fund to states. They recommend keeping in place the SSBG law to allow the use of
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