Podcasts about block grants

www.commsolutionsmn.com- President Trump has a mandate and is racing out of the gates to implement the agenda that people elected him for. The Democrats are crying foul from the mountain tops, but it's really their only play. They are protesting in front of federal buildings and in the streets. Meanwhile, President Trump and DOGE have skyrocketing poll numbers. Senator Tina Smith is choosing not to run for reelection, so candidates are starting to line up, including our Lieutenant Governor, Peggy Flannagan. We'll see who jumps in from each party. It's sure to be a wild one. If the Republicans win they have to go right to work on fixing our voter laws. Tulsi Gabbard and RFK Jr finally made it through the confirmation process. The Dem's have done everything they can to keep them from going through, but to no avail. Kash Patel is coming through soon. Henceforth all of the leftist demonstrations. Nothing else is working, so they turn to creating chaos. There has been a lot of talk for a long time to get rid of the Department of Education. DOGE has recommended it and President Trump is seriously considering it. There's a whole bunch of funding already dedicated, so what do we do with it? How do we unravel all of the mandates and the funding? USAID was the first victim. The amount of fraud and waste in these departments is monumental and the wailing and gnashing of teeth from the left is in full derangement mode. Why do they want to justify fleecing us? We take a stab at pegging a few more departments to get DOGE'd.

On episode #152 of JoCo on the Go, we tell you all about an acronym you may have heard before…CDBG. Community Development Block Grants are federal funds administered locally, used to improve housing for those with low-to-moderate incomes as well as make neighborhood improvements. You will learn how you can have your voice heard on Johnson County's current needs for 2024 planning, as well as how hundreds of thousands of dollars can still be accessed this year.

On this episode we sit down with Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program Manager, Brandon Jenson. He tells us how CDBG programs are designed to support a community's wellbeing and greater capacity for growth. These grants are available in a variety of categories and can be utilized for a variety of community development initiatives.

Georgia Department of Agriculture announce recipients of 2022 USDA Specialty Crop Block Grants, and global food prices drop for fifth-straight month.

USDA makes $248-million in Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, and Farmers National Company reports record land sales.

Marianne King from the Office of Drug Policy walks us through the Block Grant program. She explains: What the Program is. Where the money comes from. How you can apply for funding. For more information contact: Marianne King, Grant Project Director Marianne.king@odp.idaho.gov (208) 854-3043 --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

How can community development block grant resources address the urgent needs of a COVID-19 Virginia? Matt Weaver, associate director of Community Development's Policy and Strategic Development Office, walks us through the program and some strategies emerging across Virginia's communities. Get an overview of CDBG urgent need resources at https://www.dhcd.virginia.gov/using-cdbg-resources-response-covid-19 Track all of DHCD resources and updates at https://www.dhcd.virginia.gov/covid-19

In early 2020, the Trump administration rolled out a Medicaid block grant program, where states apply to received capped federal funding and have new flexibility to dictate coverage and benefits. Tennessee's application is a telling example of how health benefits for the most vulnerable populations have the potential to change drastically. Subscribe to JADPRO: https://advancedpractitioner.com/subscribe/References: Kaiser Family Foundation estimates based on 2017 National Health Expenditure Accounts data from CMS, Office of the Actuary; The Kaiser Family Foundation, Medicaid in the United States Fact Sheet, October 2019. http://files.kff.org/attachment/fact-sheet-medicaid-state-US. The Facts on Medicare Spending and Financinghttps://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/the-facts-on-medicare-spending-and-financing/ Trump Administration Announces Transformative Medicaid Healthy Adult Opportunity https://www.cms.gov/newsroom/press-releases/trump-administration-announces-transformative-medicaid-healthy-adult-opportunity Trump Administration Clears The Way For Medicaid Block Grantshttps://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/01/30/800841612/trump-administration-offers-states-a-way-to-block-grant-medicaid

Despite our dismal health ranking (42), closing rural hospitals and increasing number of uninsured, TN legislator and the Governor requested a cap on federal money last November Now the Trump administration wants to take billions of dollars out of the Medicaid Program with block grants. With new guidelines, TN will be back to the drawing board and with legal challenges and delays, TN will continue its rush to the bottom in health care indices.But Rep. Ron Travis, after personally experiencing the consequences of losing a sister in law who was uninsured, has introduced Governor Haslam's 2015 Insure Tennessee for expansion of Medicaid. We need listeners to contact Speaker Cameron Sexton keep this bill alive, and your legislators and the subcommittee's constituents to support it. The easiest way to help is to join Tennessee Justice Center's email list at tnjustic.org and of course listen to and share this podcast. You can make a difference in people's lives!!Support the show (https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/362855.rss)

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This Week in Oklahoma Politics, KOSU's Michael Cross talks with Republican Political Consultant Neva Hill and ACLU Oklahoma Executive Director Ryan Kiesel about Governor Stitt's suggestion for Oklahoma to use Medicaid block grants rather than going with Medicaid expansion, an initiative petition to end certain sentencing enhancements for nonviolent offenses and the State Insurance Commissioner chooses to not enforce a law giving patients the right to choose a pharmacy provider. The trio also discusses an announcement from Oklahoma officials of the state finally getting in compliance with Real ID and Tulsans overwhelming the renewal package for Improve Our Tulsa. Support this podcast

Randall Rice is a long time health care advocate and volunteer, and a Certified Application Counselor for Affordable Care Act enrollees. He joins the LEAD 2020 Podcast to discuss the harm posed by the extreme and unprecedented block grant plan unveiled by Gov. Bill Lee this week. The plan would make Tennessee the first state in the country to convert federal Medicaid funding into a block grant, which caps the amount of money Tennessee can receive and jeopardizes health coverage for thousands of vulnerable citizens.

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This week we are joined by Matt Broaddus to talk about block granting Medicaid, which is a major health policy change that the Trump administration plans to pursue in the coming months. Matt is a Research Analyst in the Health Division at The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a non-partisan research and policy institute in Washington DC. His policy, research, and analytical work is conducted in the areas of Medicaid and the State Child Health Insurance Programs. We start with an overview of the Medicaid program, the largest insurance program in the US. We touch on the possible benefits of block granting (19:00), and how it may affect other industry stakeholders such as health systems, hospitals, community health centers, and insurers that offer Medicaid managed care products (23:20). Lastly we discuss another block granted program, CHIP and why many see it as a successful block grant program (29:00), and one other suggestion that has been made for Medicaid reform, per-capita funding (32:45). You can find the article we mentioned by Sara Rosenbaum here, as well as some additional resources on block grants from Kaiser Health News and The Commonwealth Fund. If you like the show, please rate and review us on itunes or stitcher, which makes the show easier for others to find; and share us on social media. We tweet at @rospodcast and are on facebook at www.facebook.com/reviewofsystems. Please drop us a line at contact@rospod.org. We’d love to hear from you.

This year’s legislative session has come to an end, and a new wave of Tennessee Republicans scored some big wins during the last couple of weeks. WPLN’s political reporter Sergio Martínez-Beltrán has been on the hill for the last four months, and he says the final weeks were very hectic.

Colorado turn Blue politically this last election. It ain't so bad. Come on in. The water's fine. Looking at full day kindergarten. Gillette has put our a commercial that has conservative media all in a tither. Oooh! Listen to what Dee's interpretation is. Rand Paul is having major surgery done. Guess where? A private surgical center?  Hospital? Walter Reed? Doesn't he think are doctors are the best?  If you live in Tennessee your chances of getting Disability are nil. We tell you why. It's really a scam, folks. It isn't to your benefit. Can we, as a country, get to 100% renewables as envisioned by AOC (look it up) by 2035? We're wondering where our publicly owned utility is in the scheme of things.  What is the Cinderella Project? Is there one in your area? The Trump administration is trying for Block Grants of Medicaid and trying to by-pass Congress. Just leave well enough alone, Ok? If you're not too busy, how about lending a little support for the teachers (including charter school teachers) in the LAUSD strike?

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum joined us a couple of times over the past two weeks to explain his plan to fix America's ailing healthcare system. His plan is very similar to the Graham-Cassidy bill that Santorum helped to create. Dr. Steve Klasko, president and CEO of Jefferson Health and Thomas Jefferson University, explains the flaws he sees in Santorum's plan and prescribes a solution to help fix our current system. Rick and guest co-host Ed Morrissey also speak to John Tamny, political economy editor at Forbes and editor of RealClearMarkets.com, about his new book “The End of Work: Why Your Passion Can Become Your Job”.

President Trump announced today that he is formally withdrawing the United States from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action—also known as the “Iran nuclear deal”—and once more imposing “the highest level” of economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic. President Trump railed against the Iran deal on the campaign trail, often referring to it as the “worst deal ever.” Once he took office, he continued to take steps that suggested he wanted out of the deal. One example of this is when he imposed new sanctions on Iran last year. Many Republicans applauded the president’s move, saying the deal was not tough enough to keep the Iranian nuclear program in check and gave the Iranian government too much leeway to continue supporting terrorist groups in the Middle East. Aaron David Miller, a vice president and Middle East program director at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, thinks that President Trump’s rationale for pulling out of the deal is a “confluence of his personal ego, domestic politics, and a desire to separate himself from his predecessor.” But where does this leave Iran, our other partners in the JCPOA and the international community at large? Miller joins Rick and guest co-host Ed Morrissey, senior editor at Hotair.com, to discuss the potential geopolitical consequences of the U.S.’ withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum returns to continue talking about his plan to fix America’s ailing healthcare system.

Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum has a plan to fix Obamacare. On a basic level, his plan would seek to use block grants to give states more control over their healthcare needs. Santorum joins Rick and guest co-host Ed Morrissey, senior editor of HotAir.com, to discuss what his plan is and how it would work. Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich also jumps on to talk about his Ohio gubernatorial campaign and why he thinks he can bring Ohioans, Democrats and Republicans alike, together.

The podcast this week is a conversation with Dana DeMaster, a program evaluator who focuses on poverty and public health programs at the State and County level. Dana is also on the streets.mn board, and a long-time advocate for better bicycling in Minnesota. We sat down a while ago to discuss how cities and counties deliver […]