If your income is below 138% of the federal poverty level (FPL) and your state has expanded Medicaid coverage, you may qualify for Medicaid based on your income. If your income falls below the FPL, you may not qualify for subsidies, but you are more likely to qualify for Medicaid. Medic...
Make affordable health insurance more accessible to a larger population. This law provides consumers with subsidies, or “premium tax credits” that can lower costs for households with incomes between the federal poverty level of 100% and 400% Expanding the Medicaid program to cover all adults with...
Twenty-five interviews of Tanzanian policy-makers, including federal and local government officials, academic policy advisors, and non-governmental administrators at the national level were conducted and analyzed. Five themes were developed from the interviews including economic performance measures, barriers...
As UNESCO emerges from its isolationist past, the Organization needs to broaden and deepen its understanding of development challenges at the country level and poverty-related issues at the grass-roots level, so as to better link our sectoral programmes to the MDGs and international agenda. unesd...
President Bill Clinton would later champion a similar explanation of racial conflict at the federal level. In 1997 he appointed a national commission on race, which, in the shadow of his crime bill and welfare reform, held race dialogues, dubbed ?One America Conversations,? in thirty-...
Inequitable opportunities, privileges, and life experience based on economic class deeply affect young children’s lives. Although a family’s income doesn’t determine how much they love their child or how skilled they are at parenting, poverty can make the fundamental necessities for their children...
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Food Stamp Program is affected by each major component of the rules that determine the benefit level. This tool is used to compare the benefits received by different subpopulations, distinguished by poverty level, demographic makeup, household size, and region of the country. This simple ...
Federal law has pushed traditional public schools to focus on testing, but the competitive model of charters means "they live or die on their test scores," Adamson says. "I think the argument could be made that their accountability metrics are often tied heavily to these scores and required ...
If your income is below certain thresholds, you are eligible for the federal earned income tax credit (EIC or EITC), a refundable tax credit that can reduce your tax bill or even result in a refund of taxes paid during the year. The income levels and the credit amounts vary depending on...