U.s. Federal Aid Programs

The work and services provided by the State of Florida include services for children and families, such as services concerning adoption, child abuse, children with disabilities, food stamps, and marriage/divorce. They also provide services involving colleges and universities, courts and corrections, environmental and wildlife preservation/protection, healthcare administration, highway patrol and safety, utility regulations, transportation, revenue (taxes), and a host of other areas. In order to pay for all of the services which they provide, Governor Rick Scott has created a budget of $78.4 billion for the state of Florida in the 2015-2016 fiscal year (Scott, 2016, p. 13). This budget also includes the employment of 113,687 people who compromise the total state workforce (Scott, 2016, p. 14).

As of September, 2011 in the United States over 400,540 children were in the foster care system. The Minnesota Department of Human Services, 2011) defines foster care as, ?A 24-hour substitute care for children placed away from their parents or guardians and for whom the State agency has placement and care responsibility.? Of the 400,540 children in foster care nationwide, 195,400 were Floridians. With the fifty social service programs nationwide, Florida is one of a very few states in the nation with statewide privatization of social services, for this study, with an emphasis on privatization of foster care. In the present paper, the privatization of foster care plays a significant role in the care and placement of Florida?s abused, neglected, and abandoned children. The major thrust of privatization of foster care was implemented under the administration of Governor Jeb Bush, a staunch political conservative. The purpose of privatization was to provide better foster care services to stake-holders, primarily to find permanent homes for foster children. The Bush administration was always trying to adhere to the conservative mantra of fiscal reduction as it pertained to social services

Most of these families and individuals now are in programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, also known as welfare(National Coalition,2009), Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. These programs provide cash, health care benefits and food for these families and most individuals helping the individuals or families to get back on their feet although some will get denied for such help.

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program is intended to assist families that are living in poverty to achieve self-sufficiency by providing the family with cash benefits. The TANF program has several characteristics of early U.S. social welfare programs. Although today, the policies regarding the TANF program are much different than the early programs and changes continue to occur to change the TANF policy. Today the TANF policy provides funding sources, strict income limits, and has incorporated employment programs to promote self-sufficiency of individuals that receive benefits, to name just a few.

Before the federalization of the relief effort, states worked to raise their own money for things like food for the homeless, but after it was federalized many states purposely did a bad job of raising fund and then would over exaggerate their needs, this made them have to do less work and get more money. All states were supposed to supply an equal amount of funding in order to get federal money, but this was not always the case. For example, the director of FERA allowed certain governors to provide a very small amount of state money and sometimes didn’t require them to provide

The lower levels of government are becoming reliant on this federal money, and some even refuse to sponsor a program if it must be paid for with their tax dollars. Washington does not add any value to the taxes they receive. Instead, they lessen the value of the money before sending it back to the local governments for their funded programs. This causes local governments to pay higher taxes while gaining little funding in return. Local governments need to begin finding their own ways to fund programs instead of relying on Santa Claus so dish out small amounts of money to

This program was created to create ways for people to. Special needs children with the removal of financial difficulties for disincentives for the allowance of the option. The child receives federal funds to Title-E a federal funding providing education and training for the child welfare work field, it's also possible to receive state funded subsidies but depends on the state to which the adoption is occurring within (Adoptions 2007). The adoption must go through a licensed adoption agency, where then a public child welfare agency will determine if a family is eligible for adoption. The financial assistance is based on

In the article Wolfram communicates that the federal government is spending tens of billions of dollars in providing federal aid to student that are in college, through many actions like grants, loans and tax programs. But there is still yet to be evidence that suggest that these so called programs or policies have helped to decrease student loan debt and provided an aid to those attending college. Wolfram mentions that the federal government this year has purposed that federal tuition aid on college cost will undergo a phase where federal assistance will slowly die down. Wolfram states that the federal government will try to create a legal structure

Block grants have been implemented that focused on health and drug abuse, maternal and child health, low income people and community development. These block grants is the combination of many grants that provide local government to be flexible for spending decisions.2 The growth in federal grants to state or local government has been for the programs that are useful for individuals that have made directly through payments to service providers on their behalf. These programs include Medicaid, assistance of house, children’s health insurance program. Federal grants have provided more funding to health sector around 48% and 52% is for other

The amount of money the government uses from tax payers to help support the assistance programs are being used towards several different types of programs. Due to the amount of programs available for assistance, approx. 1800, there is ample room for someone to abuse the system. The loss of taxpayer funds in these programs are approximately $100 billion a year or more. (Edwards) The federal programs are very complex and it is making it hard for the government to stop it from happening.

Governmental aids ,such as, food stamp , medicaid and financial aid are the common benefits to low-income families.

Aside from the many responsibilities, I was given additional opportunities to experience what all Genesis had to offer. Throughout my experience, I attended a number of meetings, training sessions, observed the Human Resources department, as well as given an assignments to determine a way to improve the financial assistance process.

The desire to attract foreign direct investment causes countries to engage in competition with each other. Many regions, counties, and states have enacted policies to incentives and established agencies to promote investment so as to encourage FDI. The incentives are of financial and fiscal nature. Fiscal incentives are designed in such a way that they reduce the tax burden of companies and includes tax concessions that are usually in the form of tax holidays, reduced income tax rates, exemptions from import duties, accelerated depreciation allowances on capital taxes and duty drawbacks on exports. Financial incentives, on the other hand, consist of direct contributions to companies from the government. Financial incentives include subsidized loans, grants, loan guarantees, government insurance at preferential rates and publicly funded venture capital participation in investments that involve high commercial risks (Dadush, 2013).

I disagreed with Senator O’Donnell when he emphasized that free enterprise has lifted people more than a government program. In my opinion, I believe government programs is beneficial to individuals especially students. Government programs have improved chances for economically disadvantaged students, low-income students to obtain a higher education. Also, many government programs have eliminated poverty and homelessness and helped many people live a healthy and productive life.

“Florida ban kept 165 children in foster care, costing the state $2.5 million per year, also this