
	Where results make sense

Topic: Entitlement programs

	[No title]
		Generally, entitlement spending is not subject to control through annual appropriations, and once an entitlement program is established, its scope can be altered only by amending the law that created it.
		The Case for þAggressiveþ Reform The main focus for many proponents of curbing entitlements is on the long-range strain that entitlements may impose because of demographic factors, specifically the aging of the baby boomers and the low birth-rates that have prevailed since the mid-1960s.
		They feel the word þentitlementsþ is too amorphous because it encompasses many programs with very different purposes, and fear that it will lead to indiscriminate þcappingþ of program spending that will be misdirected and not address the long-range issues effectively.
	countingcalifornia.cdlib.org /crs/ascii/97-39 (2908 words)

	General Fund Transfers to Entitlement Programs
		Programs for the elderly and near-elderly are already partially financed directly and indirectly through general revenues.
		Despite the many general revenue sources already used in elderly and near-elderly programs, a good case can be made that the remaining tie between taxes and benefits, as reflected in the concept of trust fund balances, is a source of fiscal discipline and does help prevent further deficit financing, at least in Social Security.
		Add to those numbers the unemployed or unemployable, or those on other assistance programs, and a substantial portion of the adult population will be largely—in many cases, primarily—dependent upon the children of today to support them through their tax dollars.
	www.urban.org /TESTIMON/steuerle3-27-00.html (2855 words)

	[No title]
		For seven programs, we contracted with the Urban Institute to provide us with information about their microsimulation model estimates of participation rates.[Footnote 2] These model estimates are also used to calculate estimates of the potential cost of serving eligible nonparticipants in a subset of programs.
		Program: Medicaid; Description: Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) is a federal/state entitlement program that generally provides health insurance coverage for low-income families and individuals who are aged or disabled.
		Given funding constraints for non-entitlement programs, agencies are challenged to allocate scarce resources appropriately by targeting their benefits to specific groups of people and planning strategically to ensure that the program complements a broader range of programs administered by the same agency or that provide similar services or benefits to the program's eligible population.
	www.gao.gov /atext/d05221.txt (18277 words)

	Native Hawaiian Racial Entitlement Programs Valued in the Billions of Dollars -- Description and List of Many
		One logical consequence is that all the racial entitlement programs for Native Hawaiians sponsored by the state and federal governments are unconstitutional government-sponsored racial discrimination under the 14th Amendment equal protection clause.
		The Hawaiian language immersion program in the public schools has been expanding, and an entire consortium of new charter schools has been established to provide Hawaiian culture immersion curriculum at public expense (naturally, nearly all the children in both the language and culture immersion programs are ethnic Hawaiian).
		Defenders of racial entitlement programs argued in the Rice case that Native Hawaiians are just like an Indian tribe.
	www.angelfire.com /hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/listhawnentitlements.html (6249 words)

	Centrists.Org - The Fourth Entitlement: Interest
		True, if those programs are not reformed, the next generations will likely face burdensome tax increases, deep benefit cuts, or untenable deficits and debt levels.
		Four Large Entitlements: Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and Interest on the Public Debt: There are two main types of government spending: entitlement or "mandatory" spending, and appropriated or "discretionary" spending.
		The four big entitlements currently amount to about 10 percent of GDP, and are projected to grow to almost 24 percent of GDP by 2030 (see Figure 3).
	www.centrists.org /pages/2003/12/1_guest_budget.html (2065 words)

	Budget -- Issues 96 -- Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		While discretionary, or appropriated, programs are projected to grow by some 14 percent over the next seven years, and net interest payments on the national debt by 16 percent, the reason for the explosion in federal spending is entitlement, or mandatory, spending.
		Entitlements can be addressed in the budget process, but when they are, it is done in a single bill called a reconciliation bill, which often incorporates permanent changes in tax law, pitting entitlement reforms against tax policy.
		Funding for all agencies and programs that fail to meet this test, such as many education, welfare, health, transportation, and other programs, should be transferred to the states or returned to the people as federal tax reductions.
	www.heritage.org /research/features/ISSUES/96/chpt1.html (17497 words)

	Senate Budget Committee - Democratic Staff Website
		Instead, entitlement spending is based on the benefit and eligibility criteria established in law, and the total spending is determined by the aggregate total of all individual benefits.
		Section 311 of the CBA prohibits consideration of any new entitlement legislation (or amendment) that would cause the aggregate spending levels to be exceeded.
		While most entitlements are included in the PAYGO calculations, the majority are exempt from reduction (see section 255 of the Deficit Control Act, as amended, for a list of exempt programs).
	www.senate.gov /~budget/democratic/crsbackground/entitlements.html (692 words)

	HEARING STATEMENT
		This generational decomposition is important because major entitlement programs are mostly financed on a pay-as-you-go basis where taxes on workers are distributed almost immediately as benefits to retirees.
		An entitlement program that is financed on a strict pay-as-you-go basis would not produce cash flow deficits and, hence, would not lead to present value imbalances.
		While it is true that the dollar value of these imbalances are sensitive to different assumptions, the values of the imbalances relative to the present value of tax receipts or outlays is generally not that sensitive, since both the numerator and denominator move in similar directions.
	www.house.gov /budget/hearings/smettersstmnt021705.htm (2337 words)

	senior eligibility benefits \| entitlement programs \| senior assistance \| Illinois
		These days there is a lot of news about prescription drug programs and advertising aimed at older adults.
		I encourage seniors to be very careful about making their choice of a card and to contact their local senior services agency for education and assistance.
		In Illinois, there are a number of eligibility benefit programs for low-income (and not so low) older adults.
	www.agingconcepts.com /sreligibilitybens.htm (711 words)

	2000 Green Book Overview of Entitlement Programs
		Background Material and Data on Programs within the Jurisdicition of the Committee on Ways and Means
		Prepared for the use of Members of the Committee on Ways and Means by members of its staff.
		Social Welfare Programs in the Territories (49 kb)
	aspe.hhs.gov /2000gb (464 words)

	Affirmative Action Gone Berserk -- Racial Entitlement Programs in Hawai'i, and the Attempt to Create a Phony Indian ...
		The lawsuits against the entitlement programs have created fear among the bureaucrats who run them and the established power structure of the state.
		The greed of the recognition bill is the desire to maintain and expand the lucrative entitlement programs in the face of court challenges that they are unconstitutional.
		The racial entitlement programs are so firmly entrenched in Hawai'i that the entire political establishment of both parties fears to lose them; therefore, the establishment strongly supports the Akaka bill.
	www.angelfire.com /hi2/hawaiiansovereignty/afacracentakaka.html (2924 words)

	SR.com: Entitlement programs demand reform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Elementary and secondary education programs, including the president's No Child Left Behind initiative, would be cut by $11.5 billion over the next five years to stay within the caps, with the 2010 year alone seeing a 12 percent reduction from inflation-adjusted 2005 levels.
		The WIC program, which subsidizes the diets of low-income pregnant women and nursing mothers – a major preventive measure against low-weight babies – would be cut by $658 million, enough to reduce coverage in 2010 by 660,000 women.
		Reform of these major entitlement programs is the pressing need to avoid a budget train wreck in the next generation, but Bush has offered little leadership on that.
	www.spokesmanreview.com /business/story.asp?ID=56389 (1652 words)

	Hidden Costs Of Entitlement Programs
		As is the case with all entitlement programs, the benefits come first and the costs later.
		For 2 years, in other words, Republicans and their new found AARP allies will be able to tell the elderly what a great thing they have done for them without any fear of backlash.
		Then, seniors will come up against the bizarre rules of the program, where some drugs are covered and some are not, depending on one's income.
	www.ncpa.org /edo/bb/2003/bb-20031201.html (1059 words)

	Entitlement Programs
		Supplemental Security Income is a Federal program for aged, blind and disabled persons with little or no income or assets.
		The Social Security Benefits program and the SSI program are separate programs.
		Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a Federal program that pays monthly checks to aged, blind, and disabled people who have limited income and resources.
	www.altonweb.com /cs/downsyndrome/entitle.html (760 words)

	Entitlement Programs
		The SSI program (it comes under social security) has helped many people deserving of help.
		There's a lot of people who have turned their lives around thanks to programs that have offered help.
		Being for these programs isn't a very popular position, but I've seen the lives change.
	tomosino48.tripod.com /Opinion/id24.htm (338 words)

	Entitlement Programs Will Overwhelm the Budget
		A fundamental review of existing programs and activities is necessary both to increase fiscal flexibility and to make government fit the modern world.
		Stated differently, there is a need to consider what is the proper role of the federal government in the 21 st century, how should the government do business in the future."
		Entitlement expenditures for the elderly increase as Americans live longer and as medical costs rise.
	www.socialsecurity.org /daily/03-14-02.html (294 words)

	EconLog, Measuring Shortfalls in Entitlement Programs, Arnold Kling: Library of Economics and Liberty
		The original program as designed and enacted by FDR was funded and not intended to pay full benefits until people had worked and contributed to it for 40 years -- the late 1970s!
		The government collected money from workers, bought the bonds (IOUs really) in their name, spent the money collected on other programs, and is now faced with additional borrowing or tax increases in order to pay back the bonds.
		But the programs would never have existed if deficit spending had not been available, and I can't really muster any sympathy for an investor who miscalulates the risk of an investment.
	econlog.econlib.org /archives/2005/03/measuring_short_1.html (3100 words)

	Questions for Thinking People: Tax Cuts, Entitlement Programs and the Budget Deficit
		He says that 42 percent of the Bush tax cuts go to the top 1 percent of the population.
		As an example of how the right wing wants to "de-fund" entitlement programs created during the Great Depression by Franklin Roosevelt and later by Lyndon Johnson, he notes that: "[T]he revenue that will be sacrificed because of those tax cuts is not a minor concern.
		Some people have spam programs that deny access to e-mail addresses that are not pre-approved.
	www.learningplaceonline.com /questions/issues/budgets.asp (1083 words)

	Talking Taxes: Entitlement Programs
		The many hidden entitlements in the federal tax code for big corporations are getting less hidden everyday.
		Their boys on Capitol Hill are giving away the farm.
		We've witnessed a deadly trend over the last five years: Deficits mount, funding for key programs reach the "crisis" point, and Republicans provide billion dollar kick-backs to the biggest corporations and richest citizens.
	www.ctj.org /blog/2005/04/entitlement-programs.html (491 words)

	NCPA - Daily Policy Digest - Hidden Costs of Entitlement Programs
		In the end, only Democrats gain politically from entitlement programs, explains Bartlett.
		And whenever Republicans suggested slowing indexing to help get control of the budget, they were denounced as heartless monsters, even though their party had delivered the benefit in the first place, says Bartlett.
		Source: Bruce Bartlett, "Hidden Costs of Entitlement Programs," National Center for Policy Analysis, December 1, 2003.
	www.ncpa.org /iss/sos/2003/pd120103a.html (374 words)

	Entitlements/Entitlement Programs
		I guess here's where I lose credibility with some of you.
		Of course there's a lot of abuse in SSI (like in most entitlement programs) but closing it down or cutting everyone off, Is Not the answer.
		There's alot of people who have turned their lives around thanks to programs that have offered help.
	www.geocities.com /tomosino48/page4.html (344 words)

	Transcript from Vice-Presidential Debate: Entitlement Programs
		And only in the Clinton White House and in Al Gore's mind could an increase in spending per capita on a senior citizen from $4,800 in 1996 to $7,200 over the next five years be considered a cut.
		By the president's own trustees of Medicare, three members of which served in his cabinet, it will be losing $23 billion a year by 1998.
		Bob Dole has suggested a commission, but clearly you cannot save Medicare, Social Security or any program for the socio-welfare net of American people under which they should not be allowed to fall unless we grow this economy at at least twice the rate it's growing today.
	www.ombwatch.org /budget/health/vicedeb.html (436 words)

	1998 Green Book BACKGROUND MATERIAL AND DATA ON PROGRAMS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		1998 Green Book BACKGROUND MATERIAL AND DATA ON PROGRAMS WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, U.S. Section 1.
		Title XX Social Services Block Grant Program (40 kb)
		Social Welfare Programs in the Territories (35 kb)
	aspe.hhs.gov /98gb/toc.htm (151 words)

	Mises Economics Blog: Entitlement Programs: "Chicanery, Foolishness, and Cowardice"
		Mises Economics Blog: Entitlement Programs: "Chicanery, Foolishness, and Cowardice"
		The Wall Street Journal today features a review ($ paid site) of Laurence Kotolikoff and Scottt Burns' book The Coming Generational Storm.
		Mises.org Hosting by Inter Web Data Concepts, LLC.
	www.mises.org /blog/archives/001884.asp (888 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)