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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Type: Organization

Name: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Nationality: United States

Web Address: http://www.cbpp.org

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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

No bank account, no health insurance?

Americans shopping for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act next year might hit an unexpected obstacle: If they don't have a bank account, they might not be able to receive aid.Millions of Americans are expected to be eligible for tax subsidies ... [Published HeraldNet - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Health Insurance, Jackson Hewitt, Affordable Care Act, Taxes, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

First reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 reports

Ford Foundation

Luis Ubiñas

Over the past half-decade, as the country has suffered through a deep, persistent economic downturn, America's work support programs have served as an essential backstop for millions of working families struggling to keep a toehold in the labor market. ... [Published The Foundation Center - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Luis Ubiñas, Ford Foundation, Urban Institute, Technical Assistance

First reported 11 hours ago - Updated 11 hours ago - 2 reports

Senate rejects bid to let states run food stamps

The Senate on WednesdayKnown as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the food stamp program is administered by the Agriculture Department and federal dollars are unlimited as long as recipients qualify. The program cost $78 billion ... [Published Norwich Bulletin - 11 hours ago]

Entities: Stamp, James Inhofe, Agriculture, Robert Greenstein, Nutrition

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Randy Neugebauer

House Committee (Including Several Texas Reps) Votes to Cut SNAP Benefits for 2 Million Families

This month, the House Agriculture Committee approved a farm bill that would cut $20 billion from SNAP benefits (also known as food stamps). If enacted, the cuts would result in 2 million families losing their assistance, and over 200,000 children ... [Published Burnt Orange Report - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Pete Gallego, Agriculture, Randy Neugebauer, Mike Conaway, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Richard Nixon

Food stamp politics

“That hunger and malnutrition should persist in a land such as ours is embarrassing and intolerable.” So declared Richard Nixon in May 1969 in his now widely forgotten “Special Message to the Congress Recommending a Program to End Hunger in America.” ... [Published Rutland Herald - May 22 2013]

Entities: Richard Nixon, George McGovern, Stamp, Dorothy Samuels, Poor People's Campaign

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Word about Medicaid

Republicans in charge of the state legislature frequently point to the federal government in explaining their opposition to expanding Medicaid. They may share Gov. John Kasich’s view about aiding the working poor and those suffering from mental illness. ... [Published Akron Beacon Journal - May 22 2013]

Entities: Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Apple Inc

Apple CEO defends company’s tax payments, rallies for corporate tax reform

Apple CEO Timothy Cook delivers opening remarks while testifying before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee's Investigations Subcommittee about the company's offshore profit shifting and tax avoidance in the Dirksen Senate ... [Published SCPR - May 21 2013]

Entities: Apple Inc, Timothy Cook, Taxes, Tax Reform

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 2 reports

47 million Americans rely on nutritional help

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Sine 2008, an American dependency on food stamps has increased by 70 percent. Increased enrollment has caused costs to soar from $35 billion in 2007 to $80 billion in 2012. Lawmakers in both the House and the Senate ... [Published Catholic Online - May 20 2013]

Entities: Juan Vargas, Stamp, Stephen Fincher, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Congressional Budget Office

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Congress Argues Over Whether Bible Allows Giving Free Food to Poors

Good news for the 15% of Americans who make up the Poors: Our elected representatives have done a close reading of the Constitution the Bible and magnanimously decided that it’s OK to give a few food stamps to poor people so they don’t starve, ... [Published Wonkette - May 20 2013]

Entities: Stamp, Stephen Fincher, Nutrition, Mike Conaway, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

US government spending programmes fading

WASHINGTON: The US government received $1.6 trillion in taxes in the first four months of the year, a record high for this time period.In March and April, when a wave of congressionally mandated budget cuts first took effect, the 12-month average of spending ... [Published The Gulf Today - May 21 2013]

Entities: Jared Bernstein, United States Government, IRS Internal Revenue Service

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

U.S. House Agriculture Committee approves farm bill

According to The New York Times, on May 15 the U.S. House Agriculture Committee voted to approve a $940 billion farm bill, a day after the Senate passed its version, setting the stage for Congress to finally begin work on a new five-year bill.According ... [Published Institute of Food Technologists - May 20 2013]

Entities: Agriculture, United States, The New York Times Company, Nutrition, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 2 reports

Obamacare Doesn't Make Employers Cover Spouses....

Despite the 37 bills to repeal it and the filed against it, Obamacare, a.k.a. the , is going to be in full swing soon. But the historic health insurance reform law is going to face as it is rolled out. One corner of Obamacare that hasn't gotten much attention ... [Published Mother Jones - May 20 2013]

Entities: Obamacare, Rome, Health Insurance, Health Care

Quotes

...take debit cards or a certain form of payment," said Judy Solomon, vice president for health policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. "They've said you can't be discriminatory. And it's hard to know how much of a problem this could be in terms of what insurers were planning to do."

No bank account, no health insurance? [Published HeraldNet - 1 hour ago]

...convicted of a single crime decades ago by segregated Southern juries would be among those hit," said Robert Greenstein, president of the group. "The amendment essentially says that rehabilitation doesn't matter and violates basic norms of criminal justice." The Senate farm bill would cut the food stamp program by $400 million a year, or about half of 1 percent. The Senate on Tuesday

Senate rejects bid to let states run food stamps [Published Norwich Bulletin - 11 hours ago]

...increase hunger in Texas, primarily among households with children, elderly and the disabled," said Celia Cole, CEO of the Texas Food Bank Network. "Already, one-in-five Texas households struggles to afford food, including one-in-four children." This rate places Texas as one of the most food-insecure states in the nation

House Committee (Including Several Texas Reps) Votes to Cut SNAP Benefits for 2 Million Families [Published Burnt Orange Report - 18 hours ago]

...has too few people making sure that facilities, like the one that exploded, have safety standards that will protect the population," says Castro. "It all translates into a cheaper cost of business, and at some point that catches up with you."

Even small business is bigger in Texas [Published Custer County Chief - 19 hours ago]

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No bank account, no health insurance? [Published HeraldNet - 1 hour ago]
Luis Ubiñas [Published The Foundation Center - 7 hours ago]
Senate rejects bid to let states run food stamps [Published Norwich Bulletin - 11 hours ago]
Senate rejects bid to turn food stamp program o... [Published Canadian Business Magazine - 11 hours ago]
House Committee (Including Several Texas Reps) ... [Published Burnt Orange Report - 18 hours ago]
Even small business is bigger in Texas [Published Custer County Chief - 19 hours ago]
Food stamp politics [Published Rutland Herald - May 22 2013]
Word about Medicaid [Published Akron Beacon Journal - May 22 2013]
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Apple CEO defends company’s tax payments, ralli... [Published SCPR - May 21 2013]
Daily Pfennig: Waiting And Wondering When QE Wi... [Published Kitco - May 21 2013]
IT'S NOT JUST APPLE: The Ultra-Complicated Tax ... [Published Business Insider - May 21 2013]
US government spending programmes fading [Published The Gulf Today - May 21 2013]
Indianapoils sees large increase in poverty, bu... [Published Indianapolis Star - May 21 2013]
47 million Americans rely on nutritional help [Published Catholic Online - May 20 2013]
House and Senate farm bills good news for sugar... [Published NOLA Live - May 20 2013]
Are The Deficit Hawks Actually Trying To Starve... [Published Crooks and Liars - May 20 2013]
Congress Argues Over Whether Bible Allows Givin... [Published Wonkette - May 20 2013]
U.S. House Agriculture Committee approves farm ... [Published Institute of Food Technologists - May 20 2013]
Obamacare Doesn't Make Employers Cover Spouses.... [Published Mother Jones - May 20 2013]
Obamacare Doesn't Make Employers Cover Spouses.... [Published Mojo Feed \| Mother Jones - May 20 2013]
House committee approves farm bill [Published Times Argus - May 20 2013]
Food Stamp Cuts Emerge as Lawmakers Craft New F... [Published Flathead Beacon - May 19 2013]
EDITORIAL: Food gap [Published Individual.com - May 19 2013]
House and Senate Committees Each Approve Separa... [Published Ms. - May 17 2013]
DISPATCH: How Budget Politics Are Shifting, Win... [Published Progressive States Network - May 17 2013]
The Company Memo: Friday, May 17, 2013 [Published Newsvine - May 17 2013]
As Congress debates farm bill, food stamps hang... [Published Marketplace - May 17 2013]
House Small Business Subcommittee on Agricultur... [Published Zecco - May 17 2013]
Food Stamps Get Licked by Cuts [Published TAPPED - May 17 2013]

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House Committee (Including Several Texas Reps) ... [Published Burnt Orange Report - 18 hours ago] This month, the House Agriculture Committee approved a farm bill that would cut $20 billion from SNAP benefits (also known as food stamps). If enacted, the cuts would result in 2 million families losing their assistance, and over 200,000 children ...
Are The Deficit Hawks Actually Trying To Starve... [Published Crooks and Liars - May 20 2013] This is not a rhetorical question: Are the deficit hawks consciously trying to kill people? Do they begrudge even this minimal help? All the money in the world for war, but not to feed people? When you have so many people hanging by a thread, cutting ...
Congress Argues Over Whether Bible Allows Givin... [Published Wonkette - May 20 2013] Good news for the 15% of Americans who make up the Poors: Our elected representatives have done a close reading of the Constitution the Bible and magnanimously decided that it’s OK to give a few food stamps to poor people so they don’t starve, ...
Obamacare Doesn't Make Employers Cover Spouses.... [Published Mojo Feed \| Mother Jones - May 20 2013] Despite the 37 bills to repeal it and the scores of lawsuits filed against it, Obamacare, a.k.a. the Affordable Care Act, is going to be in full swing soon. But the historic health insurance reform law is going to face many more bumps in the road ...
DISPATCH: How Budget Politics Are Shifting, Win... [Published Progressive States Network - May 17 2013] Sign up to receive the Dispatch in your inbox here. /b> Friday, May 17, 2013 Welcome to the Stateside Dispatch, Progressive States Network's roundup of the latest state policy news. Here's what happened in the states this ...

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What are the consequences of the "fiscal cliff"? [Published CBS News Online - YouTube - Dec 01 2012]