1. A
$20 billion increase for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as Food Stamps.
2. A
$1 billion in funding for the Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) that is intended to revitalize low-income communities via "Job training and placement assistance", "Financial literacy programs", et al, to helping families become self-sufficient.
3. A
$2 billion in new Neighborhood Stabilization Funds that will allow ailing neighborhoods be kept maintained.
4. A
$1.5 billion in Homelessness Prevention Funds to keep people in their homes and prevent homelessness.
5. A
$5 billion increase for the Weatherization Assistance Program to help low income families save on their residential energy expenditures by making their homes more energy efficient.
6. A
$4 Billion program, The Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010, "authorizes funding for federal school meal and child nutrition programs and increases access to healthy food for low-income children."
7. As part of the HCR bill,
subsidies will be available to the uninsured and families with income between the 133 percent and 400 percent of poverty level($14,404 for individuals and $29,326 for a family of four).
8. Estabilished Open Doors
to end the 640,000 men, women and children who are homeless in America by 2020.
9.
.Increased the amount of federal Pell Grant awards so that funds are available to those with less access to have opportunity.
10. Provided
$510 Million for the rehabilitation of Native American housing.
11.
Expanded eligibility for Medicaid to all individuals under age 65 with incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty level ($14,400 per year for an individual).
12.
Providing assistance to low-income workers through the Earned Income Tax Credit giving millions of working families the break they need.
13. Education being the way out of Poverty,
kicked off the "Race to the Top", a $4.3 billion program, that rewards via grants to States that meet a few key benchmarks for reform, and states that outperform the rest.
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