Liheap, the home energy assistance program, helps 23 million people stay warm in the winter.
Last month, for instance, President Clinton said he would order that the remaining $125 million in a low-income home energy assistance program be made immediately available.
One initiative that did better this year than in previous Clinton spending plans was the low-income home energy assistance program, which the President has often tried to cut.
The organization provides a variety of services, including a food pantry, a community soup kitchen, an eviction prevention program, an employment and education training program, a home energy assistance program and a men's shelter.
At the state level, officials have allocated $6.3 billion for the Road Home's assistance program for homeowners, dwarfing the $869 million allocated to the Small Rental Property Program, which housing advocates say is the most likely to replace affordable units quickly.
To get there, we're going to need increased commitment from the mayor and the D.C. Council for the District's Housing Production Trust Fund, which is how most affordable housing gets built here, and the Home Purchase Assistance Program, the District's down-payment assistance for first-time homebuyers.
Instead of tax cuts, Burman argued, the stimulus should come in the form of short-term spending, including aid to states; increases in food stamps; accelerated spending on infrastructure projects; federal expansion of health care for low-income children; and a temporary increase in the low-income home energy assistance program.
* the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program by 66%.
Food stamp applicants poor enough to qualify for the federal Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program can automatically receive a deduction from the calculation of their monthly income, which determines the size of a food stamp benefit.
We count on the millionaire to have enough self-awareness to recognize that his worries are not the stuff of life and death, while we apply our compassion to policy measures, like earned income tax credits and the low income home energy assistance program, meant to give a helping hand to the struggling mom.
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