Tensions surface as block grant budget review begins.

Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY);  January 25, 2007 ;     567 words ...Byline: Brian Meyer Jan. 25--As the federal block grant pie continues to shrink, Mayor Byron W. Brown...perhaps a 10 percent reduction. It's not a pretty block grant, said Council Majority Leader Dominic Bonifacio...doublespeak, Diina said. Yet I look at the [block grant] list, and it's ...

Researchers back advocates' fears over new block grant proposals.

Report on Disability Programs;  July 8, 2004 ;     434 words ......slew of recent block-grant proposals for Medicaid...analysis of existing block grants. One popular worry...experience is that block-grant conversion usually...decrease. UI defines block grants as fixed-sum federal...current and former block grants in a ...

Researchers back advocates' fears over new block grant proposals.(Urban...

Child Protection Report;  July 1, 2004 ;     525 words ......slew of recent block-grant proposals for...analysis of existing block grants. One popular worry...experience is that block-grant conversion usually...funding for a block grant has not been consistently...decrease. UI defines block grants as fixed-sum ...

Block grant money may pad city's budget

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  February 21, 2001 ;     580 words ...Block grant money may pad city...from the city's block grants next year and use...who work in the block grant areas. The rest...say the city's block grants -- about $30 million...1.3 million in block grant funds each year...improvements in the block ...

Block Grant funding cut would impact local programs

Pasadena Star-News;  February 13, 2005 ;     416 words ......consolidating the Community Development Block Grant program, which distributes about...for Latino day laborers, receives block grant funding. The Fair Oaks Renaissance...project, also was funded in part with block grant money. For some agencies, block grants are the ...

BLOCK GRANT HELPS OUT HOMEOWNERS CURRITUCK COUNTY IS ALSO PITCHING IN TO...

The Virginian Pilot;  February 17, 2000 ;     700+ words ......to a community development block grant of $402,500 plus a county...is, officials say, so the block grants have gone more often to surrounding...Dunlap said. Critics of HUD's block grant program, started in the 1970s...grant and oversee repairs. Block grant guidelines ...

Groups complain about getting less block grant funds

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 20, 2004 ;     565 words ......getting less block grant funds City expected...million in federal block grant funds next year...problems grow, block grants decrease and...held on the 2005 block grant allocation plan...23 million in block grants. The turnaround...eligible to receive ...

A Good Block Grant

The Washington Post;  October 13, 1995 ;     409 words ...THERE ARE good block grants and bad. The Senate voted...of existence in favor of block grants to the states. Instead of...This isn't the kind of block grant meant to provide cover for...separate -- not part of the block grant. One is a good exception...merging the program ...

City's block grant funding down again: Total has fallen nearly 25 percent...

Charleston Gazette;  May 8, 2006 ;     653 words ......smaller pool of federal block grant money next year under...Community Development Block Grant program, cities will have...Council members approved the block grant allocation for 2006-07...getting less and less block grant money in recent years...property in the East ...

Block grant battle continues

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 31, 2001 ;     339 words ...Block grant battle continues Henningsen...community development block grant funds would be returned...city leaders to shift block grants to the city budget has...have liked to use more block grant funds for to help with...Using $2.5 million in block grant ...

Proposal cuts block grant money to be spent by community groups

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  July 15, 2002 ;     700+ words ...Proposal cuts block grant money to be spent by...32 million in federal block grants. Under the plan that...the city's slice of block grant funding pie would increase...comprehensive look at block grants and the services they...

3 Senate Moderates Balk at Reshaping School Lunch Program Into Block Grant

The Washington Post;  November 23, 1995 ;     700+ words ......single payment, or block grant, and thereby gain considerable...for an optional state block grant and written that language...for a school lunch block grant. That provision has...bill would contain the block grant option. Goodling and...week over whether the ...

Witnesses call for funding flexibility, but are wary of a new block...

Child Protection Report;  January 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ......proposal would serve as a block grant with a capped funding...The problem with block grants is that politicians...years ago, the state's block grant for child welfare...returned. If Washington block grants Title IV-E, the same...billion. When IV-E block ...

Block grant pipeline may be capped

Redlands Daily Facts;  March 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Community Development Block Grant program. His "Strengthening...Community Development Block Grant and 18 other grant programs...Department of Commerce. The block grant program alone distributed...Community Development Block Grant and the 18 other grant...Budget review ...

City joins others to oppose Bush's block grant cuts

Pasadena Star-News;  March 29, 2005 ;     406 words ......administration proposal to cut $1 billion from block grants that target urban areas. Pasadena...per year in Community Development Block Grants, which is spent almost exclusively...66-32 two weeks ago to restore the block grant funding and keep the program within...business incubators ...