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Pre-2005 Content Archive

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House Budget Reconciliation Bill Includes Highly Flawed TANF Provisions That Have Repeatedly Failed To Garner Support

Key Findings

  • TANF provisions in the House budget reconciliation bill would impose rigid and costly new requirements on state TANF programs and could force some states to abandon successful welfare-to-work initiatives.
  • The House bill contains grossly insufficient funding for states to meet its new requirements. Funding for the TANF block grant would remain frozen, and funding for child care would not even keep pace with inflation.
  • The House bill also contains a severe cut in child support enforcement funding that would cause $24 billion in child support to go uncollected over the next decade, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
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FEMA Action Raises More Doubts about Federal Commitment to Aid Katrina Victims New Policy Puts Vulnerable Families at Risk

Key Findings:

  • FEMA’s plan to terminate reimbursements for hotel or motel stays on December 1 is likely to leave many Katrina evacuees without adequate temporary housing.
  • FEMA’s plan could place substantial burdens on state and local governments that have assisted Katrina evacuees and undermine the effectiveness of local government efforts to relocate families into stable housing.
  • FEMA should fix the shortcomings of its cash rental assistance program that are likely to make it ineffective for many low-income families.
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President Bush Embraces House Budget

The Administration has now released its official “Statement of Administration Policy” (or SAP) on the budget bill that passed the House of Representatives early this morning.[1] In it, the...
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False Promise of Prosperity: For Kansas Economic Growth, TABOR May Do More Harm than Good

Key Findings

  • A proposed TABOR amendment in Kansas would not help the state's economy. It would undermine education, transportation, public safety, and other services important to economic development.
  • Business leaders in Colorado, the only state with a TABOR, say it endangers economic growth.
  • Differences between Colorado's economic growth rate and that of Kansas are attributable to differences in the states' geographies, populations and economic bases that long predate TABOR.
  • Since TABOR's enactment, Colorado's economic growth rate has not improved relative to that of its Rocky Mountain neighbors.
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Unshared Sacrifice

The eight House Committees charged with making cuts in a wide range of mandatory (or “entitlement”) programs under this year’s budget process have all completed their work. The reconciliation...
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What Are The Effects Of Cutting Domestic Appropriations Another Two Percent?

Key Findings

  • To reach its budget targets, the House of Representatives has already approved appropriations bills that cut domestic programs an average of 2.8 percent or $11 billion below the 2005 funding level, adjusted only for inflation.
  • Chairman Nussle of the House Budget Committee is proposing that domestic appropriated programs (and defense and international programs as well) be cut an additional two percent.
  • If the additional two-percent cut is applied across the board, many domestic programs would undergo substantial reductions from the combination of the cuts made in the appropriations bills the House has already passed and the additional across-the-board cut. This analysis portrays the cuts that would result in a number of programs, including Community Development Block Grants, Head Start, EPA clean water grants, Title 1 education for the disadvantaged, special education for people with disabilities, and Section 8 tenant-based housing vouchers.
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Changes Needed In Katrina Transitional Housing Plan

Key Findings:

  • The amount of rental assistance provided to evacuees is insufficient for some families to secure housing.
  • For many families receiving rental assistance under FEMA's Individuals and Households Program, housing will remain unstable because the duration of assistance is uncertain.
  • Some families will need relocation and housing search assistance, as well as direct payments to owners through rental vouchers, to secure stable housing.
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The House Republican Study Committee's Proposals to Offset the Costs of Hurricane Relief

Key Findings

  • Some $375 billion in cuts over ten years— or nearly 40 percent of the cuts in the RSC package — would come from programs that assist people with low incomes.  The package includes large cuts in Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and help to the world’s most poverty-stricken nations to fight AIDS and other diseases.
  • The package also would squeeze millions of middle-class households; for most elderly couples, premiums and co-payments under Medicare would be raised an average of $1,700 in 2006 and about $10,000 over five years.
  • The RSC package also includes large reductions in grants to help local governments improve “first responders” capabilities, in funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and in funding for environmental protection and energy conservation, among other areas.
  • While including these cuts, the package would not delay or scale back any tax cuts or close any tax shelters.  It would leave fully in place tax cuts that now average $103,000 a year for people with incomes over $1 million a year, and would allow two new tax cuts exclusively for high-income households to take effect January 1.
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A State of Decline: What a TABOR Would Mean for Kansas

Key Findings

Kansas state expenditures would have been $890 million, or 19 percent, lower in FY 2005 if a TABOR had been in effect since 1993. Large cuts would have been required to accommodate the TABOR limits, potentially including:

  • Cutting 10,000 K-12 teachers

  • Increasing the average pupil-teacher ratio from 15 to 23

  • Eliminating the HealthWave insurance program for low-income children

  • Increasing university tuition by an average of $1,400

  • Incarcerating 1,300 fewer inmates