Sentence examples for assistance cuts from inspiring English sources

Mr. Clark and Mr. Messina are worried about the recent federal food assistance cuts and even greater ones likely to follow, knowing that every cut means skimpier meals for poor families.

"We've seen how devastating the cuts to our core government programs are already, from cuts in Head Start, reductions in housing assistance, cuts to unemployment benefits and fewer job training programs — all when our nation still has a 7.7 percent unemployment rate," said Rachel Gragg, federal policy director for the National Skills Coalition, a job training advocacy group.

At the elementary and secondary level, overloaded teachers and classrooms, coupled with program and support assistance cuts has resulted today in our 15-year-olds not able to crack the global top 20 in reading, math or science.

WASHINGTON -- To protest nutrition assistance cuts this week, nearly 30 Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives are limiting their food budgets to what a person gets from food stamps.

Ultimately, if Republicans are going to deliver on their promised repeal and replacement of Obamacare, they will have to vote for a bill with unknown effects, and House Republicans from states like California and New York would have to back huge health care assistance cuts to their states.

She added: "It's not like they got their food assistance cut and decided, 'OK, that's it.

But with winter approaching the UNHCR says there is a funding shortfall of US$2.85bn, meaning refugees have had their food assistance cut by a third.

(As Politico noted on Friday, under Price "HHS shortened the Obamacare enrollment period, reduced marketing and outreach, slashed enrollment assistance, cut HealthCare.gov's online hours — and used Twitter, news releases and YouTube videos to discredit the law").

The shortfall has meant 1.6 million refugees have had food assistance cut this year and 750,000 children are not attending school, the agencies and partner organisations said, calling on countries to deliver on their pledges.

Last year, many refugees and displaced in the region saw their food assistance cut in half.

Baird supported mandatory drug-testing for welfare recipients and argued that those who refused such tests should be at risk of have their assistance cut off.