Government+Involvement+in+The+Fight+Against+Poverty


 * __Governmental Assistance Programs (state by state)__**

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There is no shame in needing help in your life, and if you ever find yourself thinking that you just can't do things on your own anymore and you need help there are many Government assistance programs that can get you the help you need. Whether it be money assistance or just simple child care the government can get you the help you need. The following is a list of assistance programs that the state of Pennsylvania offers...=====


 * **Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), also known as Cash Assistance**
 * **CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Plan) - Cover All Kids**
 * **PACE and PACENET**
 * **PACE and PACENET are two programs that are offered to seniors to help them pay for prescription medications.**
 * **Mortgage and Foreclosure Assistance**
 * **Military Family Relief Assistance Program**
 * **Provides services members and their families with grants of up to $2500.**
 * **Food Stamps**
 * **Child Care Works**
 * **Legal Help Programs**
 * Non-profit law firms exist in Pennsylvania that provide state residents with free legal representation and advice.
 * **Homeless Assistance Program (HAP)**
 * **Community Clinics and Health Care Centers**
 * Get free or low cost medical, dental, and other forms of health care from clinics that operate across the state
 * For complete listings of local clinics [|Click Here]
 * **Pennsylvania Food Banks**
 * can provide families and individuals who are facing an emergency with free food
 * **Women, Infants, and Children (WIC)**
 * National nutrition program for pregnant women, new mothers and children under the age of 5

For a complete list of all Government assistance programs please visit the following link to read more about the ones listed and more that there is to offer. [] Gabbi Lech

"Education lies at the heart of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR): Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms" (Dhilliion). However, there is a large difference between the right to education and the human rights education. This article aruges that education should include the knowledge of how to avoid poverty, as a human right. []
 * Alyxandra Howard:**

As of April 2011, WIP has just started using the federal poverty guideline. The guideline were frozen, until recently, at thier 2009 levels. This was to allow more Americans to be eligable for goverment assistance programs, such as WIC. In order to currently be eligable for this program, a family must at or below 185% of the poverty level. Prior to this change, single pregnant women, qualified with an annual income of about $26,955 or less. For the new standards, a pregnant women making less than $27,214 will qualify.
 * More information on WIC:**

** The War on Poverty is the unofficial name for legislation first introduced by United States president Lyndon B. Johnson during his State of the Union address on January 8, 1964. This legislation was proposed by Johnson in response to a national poverty rate of around nineteen percent. The speech led the United States Congress to pass the Economic Opportunity Act, which established the Office of economic opportunity (OEO) to administer the local application of federal funds targeted against poverty. ** ** President Johnson's "War on Poverty" speech was delivered at a time of recovery (the poverty level had fallen from 22.4% in 1959 to 19% in 1964 when the War on Poverty was announced) and it was viewed by critics as an effort to get the United States Congress to authorizes social wellfare programs. Some economists, including Milton Friedman have argued that Johnson's policies actually had a negative impact on the economy because of their interventionist nature. Adherents of this school of thought recommend that the best way to fight poverty is not through government spending but through economic growth.The policy trains disadvantaged and at-risk youth and has provided more than 2 million disadvantaged young people with the integrated academic, vocational, and social skills training they need to gain independence and get quality, long-term jobs or further their education. Job Corps continues to help 70,000 youths annually at 122 Job Corps centers throughout the country. ** ** Another recurring theme of War on Poverty criticism was that some individual offices were either extremely ineffective, wasteful, or both. Anecdotal stories about local War on Poverty workers doing nothing or "tapping the till" were frequent. **