Sentence examples for disaster programs from inspiring English sources
Government disaster programs generally support individual, not collective, relocation projects.
The program at SUNY New Paltz is unusual both for its location — the Northeast, which has relatively few disaster programs — and for its focus on mental health.
The reluctance of politicians to speak out leaves criticism of the disaster programs primarily to an odd alliance of free-market conservative economists and avid environmentalists.
Mr. Vilsack said Congress could help by restoring disaster programs that expired last year or by providing other assistance through the Food, Farm and Jobs Act, a major overhaul of the nation's nutrition and agriculture program now pending.
Democratic leaders loaded the spending bill in the House with provisions intended to build support, or make it hard to vote against, including money for Gulf Coast recovery efforts, the State Children's Health Insurance Program, agriculture disaster programs and security.
The C.B.O. said the decline in total savings it estimated last year resulted from underestimating spending for new disaster programs outlined in the farm bill for crops and milk, higher disaster aid costs and new calculations for spending in the food stamp program.
The legislation could include a livestock disaster program that provides assistance for producers in dire straits.
The Small Business Administration has made $3.8 million in loans to homeowners and businesses under another federal disaster program, the White House said.
Many farmers say they would not be eligible for the low-interest loans available through the disaster program anyway.
What has happened, in the view of students of the subject, is that presidents have discovered the political utility of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's disaster program.
"I do believe the House will address the livestock disaster program that unfortunately in the last farm bill was only authorized for four years," Speaker John A. Boehner said on Thursday.
