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a grant of federal money to state and local governments to support social welfare programs
block grants reduce federal responsibility for social welfare
How To Use block grant In A Sentence
- At present, all tax receipts go to the UK Treasury and money is handed back to Scotland in the form of a block grant.
- Thus by the sixth year about half of all the block grant money would be distributed on a discretionary basis.
- Such geographic constraints were initially absent from the block grant program.
- One aspect of the block grant other than program decisions and performance audits would require HUD-local interaction.
- The meeting was complete with a slide show prepared by the National League of Cities that explained the block grant program.
- Thus by the sixth year about half of all the block grant money would be distributed on a discretionary basis.
- Arts and Sports Councils established under Acts of Parliament and funded by block grant offer a further instance.
- These assessments form a crucial input to the determination of the actual funding allocation to each Local Authority through Block Grant.
- Governors tried unsuccessfully last year to persuade Congress to convert Medicaid into a block grant, as Congress did on welfare.
- block grants reduce federal responsibility for social welfare
