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  • $100 million in Affordable Care Act grants to help create healthier U.S. communities

    05/14/2011 3:34:17 PM PDT · by FourPeas · 18 replies
    HHS Website ^ | 13 May 2011
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 13, 2011 Contact: HHS Press Office (202) 690-6343 $100 million in Affordable Care Act grants to help create healthier U.S. communities Prevention grants to focus on improving health, which can lower costs The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced today the availability of over $100 million in funding for up to 75 Community Transformation Grants. Created by the Affordable Care Act, these grants are aimed at helping communities implement projects proven to reduce chronic diseases – such as diabetes and heart disease. By promoting healthy lifestyles and communities, especially among population groups experiencing the...
  • The Obama Budget: Expanding the Welfare state and Undermining Marriage

    03/16/2010 6:11:50 PM PDT · by Nachum · 5 replies · 260+ views
    heritage.org ^ | 3/16/10 | staff
    President Obama’s budget outlines a plan to pay states to grow their welfare roles and eliminate efforts to fight family breakdown in low-income communities. Despite the fact that low work hours and fatherlessness are two of the greatest contributors to poverty in the United States, the newly released budget provides incentives for states to increase the size of their caseloads and also wipes out funding for healthy marriage programs that aim to decrease the number of children growing up in single-parent homes.
  • (ABC) Exclusive: Jobs 'Saved or Created' in Congressional Districts That Don't Exist

    11/16/2009 1:21:22 PM PST · by Boiling Pots · 102 replies · 4,451+ views
    Here's a stimulus success story: In Arizona's 9th Congressional District, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that's what the website set up by the Obama Administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says. There's one problem, though: There is no 9th Congressional District in Arizona; the state has only eight Congressional Districts. There's no 86th Congressional District in Arizona either, but the government's recovery.gov Web site says $34 million in stimulus money has been spent there.