defense appropriations, and nondefense appropriations—are each currently equal to or smaller than their 50-year averages relative to the size of the economy. These other benefit programs (which include a portion of the earned income tax credit, food stamps, retirement benefits...
However, even after nearly all existing food stores were approved as WIC vendors, a quarter of the rural population served by ITCA remained >5 miles away from an authorized WIC vendor [53]. During the COVID-19 pandemic, WIC clinics replaced in-person appointments with telephone and internet ...
States struggled, however, to identify the eligible children and to send the funds to them, particularly to families who don’t receive food stamps. Some states required families to apply for the benefit. It took weeks, and in many cases, months, for parents to receive the payments. ...
The combined bill on pandemic relief and omnibus funding was agreed after seven months of on-again-off-again negotiations by Congress late on the night of Sunday, December 20, as wereported. In addition to extension of UI eligibility periods and supplementing UI payments by $300 weekly above s...
- Total hunting license, tags, permits and stamps: 4,142,884 - Gross cost of all hunting licenses: $40,940,312 In the wake of COVID-19, Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers made the decision to close hunter safety courses in Oneida County. The Wisconsin-based group, Hunter Nation,was outraged by...
slashing the social safety net altogether to shave $2 trillion from federal spending (one-third of the budget), which means Head Start, food stamps, Medicaid, public health, public education, Pell grants, Medicare and Social Security. (So-called “discretionary spending” totals $1.7 trillion.)...