Measures will include handing out shopping vouchers to the poor and subsidies for heating oil.In this section Barbarians at the farm gate Same old song Pump-priming Shifting clout Coming soon?
For years India's politicians have preferred economic palliatives such as NREGA, a giant scheme that guarantees work for the rural poor, and subsidies for the needy.Now India's borrowing has soared to queasy levels and welfare spending is being squeezed.
However, given the current financing arrangements in Laos, CBHI is unlikely to increase financial protection among the poor in areas where subsidies for the poor are not available.
Mr. Kerry has called for expanding existing government programs for the poor and increasing subsidies for employer-based coverage.
They talked about an increase in government services to help the poor, large public subsidies for housing construction and transportation, and rolling back tax cuts Mr. Giuliani had advocated.
Instead he stressed his support for expensive social programs, like insurance for the poor and drug subsidies for the elderly, as part of an effort to woo Latinos, union members and moderate Democrats.
Mr. Pataki still says he believes in limited government, low taxes and a tough stance on crime, but these days he talks as much about health care for the poor and drug subsidies for the elderly as he does about cutting government and red tape.
The Cassidy-Graham legislation would undo major parts of the Affordable Care Act, ending its expansion of Medicaid to poor adults, eliminating subsidies for private health insurance offered to low- and middle-income households and scrapping the law's individual mandate that most Americans obtain health coverage or face tax penalties, among other provisions.
In those states, millions of adults earning less than $11,500 will be too poor for subsidies, yet will not qualify for Medicaid.
The SNP government has failed to make the most of its positive contributions to the northern isles (£60m for new schools in Orkney, for instance) while allowing its opponents to capitalise on its poorer decisions (different subsidies for travel to different island groups, with the divide appearing to match whether or not the islands vote SNP).
