What Is a Block Grant? A block grant is an annual sum of money that is awarded by the federal government to a state or local government body to help fund a specific project or program such as Medicaid ...

WITH MORE ON THE MILESTONE. DEB. YEAH, ASHLEY KAI BUY BACK THE BLOCK WAS ONE OF SEVERAL PROGRAMS THAT WERE STARTED WITH FUNDS FROM THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT. THE IDEA WAS SIMPLE ELIMINATE THE ...

President Donald Trump’s 2026 budget proposal includes the total elimination of the Community Services Block Grant, a little-known but vitally important source of funding aimed at reducing poverty for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. JEFFERSON — The Ashtabula County Board of Commissioners approved a grant agreement with the Ohio Department of Development for a ...

As Congress negotiates a bill to overhaul the federal budget, lawmakers looking to save money should note $30 billion in potential savings hiding in plain sight. The Public Service Loan Forgiveness ...

Republicans have floated the idea of transforming Medicaid into a block grant program for years, and now with control of the White House and Congress, they are in a position to make the change. The ...

In his July 28 op-ed column, "Ryan's stale ideas," E.J. Dionne Jr. criticized Rep. Paul Ryan's idea of "wrapping federal [anti-poverty] programs into a block grant and shipping them off to the states.

BENTONVILLE -- The city is changing the way it allocates federal Community Development Block Grant money after it determined a homeownership assistance program was unfeasible with rising home prices.