Also tagged in: Academic performance, Budgets, College costs, College teachers, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Curricula, Education, Education of the disadvantaged, Educational accountability, Educational counseling, Elementary and secondary education, Elementary education, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to education, Government information, Government paperwork, Governmental investigations, Graduate education, Higher education, Labor, Paraprofessional school personnel, Psychologists, Psychology, Recruiting of employees, Salaries, Scholarships, School personnel, Secondary education, Social services, Social work, Student aid, Student loan funds, Teacher salaries, Teacher supply and demand, Welfare
Latest Action: 07/30/2008 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Bill TextA bill to increase the recruitment and retention of school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists by low-income local educational agencies. 7/30/2008--Introduced. Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive, renewable, five-year grants to partnerships between low-income local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools offering graduate programs in school counseling, social work, or psychology to increase the number of program graduates employed by low-income LEAs. Defines "low-income LEAs" as those that: (1) serve students at least 20% of which are from low-income families; (2) have ratios of school counselors, social workers, and psychologists to students that fall at least 10% below specified target ratios; and (3) have been identified as needing improvement or corrective action or include at least one school identified as needing improvement, corrective action,[...] show full description
Also tagged in: Academic performance, Budgets, College costs, College teachers, Congress, Congressional reporting requirements, Curricula, Education, Education of the disadvantaged, Educational accountability, Educational counseling, Elementary and secondary education, Elementary education, Executive departments, Federal advisory bodies, Federal aid to education, Government information, Government paperwork, Governmental investigations, Graduate education, Higher education, Labor, Paraprofessional school personnel, Psychologists, Psychology, Recruiting of employees, Salaries, Scholarships, School personnel, Secondary education, Social services, Social work, Student aid, Student loan funds, Teacher salaries, Teacher supply and demand, Welfare
Latest Action: 07/30/2008 - Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor. Bill TextTo increase the recruitment and retention of school counselors, school social workers, and school psychologists by low-income local educational agencies. 7/30/2008--Introduced. Increased Student Achievement Through Increased Student Support Act - Directs the Secretary of Education to award competitive, renewable, five-year grants to partnerships between low-income local educational agencies (LEAs) and schools offering graduate programs in school counseling, social work, or psychology to increase the number of program graduates employed by low-income LEAs. Defines "low-income LEAs" as those that: (1) serve students at least 20% of which are from low-income families; (2) have ratios of school counselors, social workers, and psychologists to students that fall at least 10% below specified target ratios; and (3) have been identified as needing improvement or corrective action or include at least one school identified as needing improvement, corrective action, [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Aid to dependent children, Budgets, Business, Cash welfare block grants, Child support, Childbirth, Children, Collection of accounts, Criminal justice, Custody of children, Disabled, Earned income tax credit, Economic policy, Employment of the disabled, Ex-offenders, Expatriation, Families, Family violence, Fathers, Food, Food stamps, Foreign corporations, Foreign tax credit, Government information, Government paperwork, Health policy, Imports, Imprisonment, Income, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Job training, Labor, Marriage, Married people, Medicaid, Medical care, Paternity, Rehabilitation of criminals, State and local government, State laws, Tax evasion, Tax returns, Tax shelters, Taxation, Taxation of foreign income, Trade, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, Welfare work participation, Working poor
Latest Action: 04/25/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition and Forestry. Bill TextTo amend title IV of the Social Security Act to ensure funding for grants to promote responsible fatherhood and strengthen low-income families, and for other purposes. 8/3/2007--Introduced. Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2007 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to: (1) funding for responsible fatherhood programs; (2) requirements to ensure procedures to address domestic violence; (3) activities promoting responsible fatherhood; (4) grants to healthy family partnerships for domestic violence prevention, for services for families and individuals affected by domestic violence, and for developing and implementing best practices; and (5) elimination of separate TANF work participation rate for two-parent families.Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to prohibit a state from collecting any amount owed it by reason of costs it has [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Aerospace industries, Armed forces, Armed forces reserves, Budgets, Business, Congressional reporting requirements, Construction industries, Counterterrorism, Criminal justice, Defense policy, Energy, Energy industries, Grants-in-aid, Iraq compilation, Job hunting, Job training, Labor, Military personnel, National Guard, Nonprofit organizations, Salaries, Terrorism, Transportation, Veterans, Veterans' employment, Vocational education
Latest Action: 09/25/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel. Bill TextTo authorize a competitive grant program to assist members of the National Guard and Reserve and former and current members of the Armed Forces in securing employment in the private sector, and for other purposes. 8/3/2007--Introduced. Hire a Hero Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the federal government should support private sector employment initiatives for military personnel to help ensure that those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces have access to gainful employment. Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau (Chief) to award grants to nonprofit organizations to assist the following individuals in securing employment in the private sector: (1) a member of the National Guard or reserve; (2) a member of the Armed Forces who is nearing separation, discharge, or release; and (3) a former member of the Armed Forces. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Chief, in awarding such grants, should consider organizations that partner with [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Aerospace industries, Armed forces, Armed forces reserves, Budgets, Business, Congressional reporting requirements, Construction industries, Counterterrorism, Criminal justice, Defense policy, Energy, Energy industries, Grants-in-aid, Iraq compilation, Job hunting, Job training, Labor, Military personnel, National Guard, Nonprofit organizations, Salaries, Terrorism, Transportation, Veterans, Veterans' employment, Vocational education
Latest Action: 08/02/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services. Bill TextA bill to authorize a competitive grant program to assist members of the National Guard and Reserve and former and current members of the Armed Forces in securing employment in the private sector, and for other purposes. 8/2/2007--Introduced. Hire a Hero Act - Expresses the sense of Congress that the federal government should support private sector employment initiatives for military personnel to help ensure that those who serve or have served in the Armed Forces have access to gainful employment. Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau (Chief) to award grants to nonprofit organizations to assist the following individuals in securing employment in the private sector: (1) a member of the National Guard or reserve; (2) a member of the Armed Forces who is nearing separation, discharge, or release; and (3) a former member of the Armed Forces. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Chief, in awarding such grants, should consider organizations that partner [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Aid to dependent children, Budgets, Business, Cash welfare block grants, Child support, Childbirth, Children, Collection of accounts, Criminal justice, Custody of children, Disabled, Earned income tax credit, Economic policy, Employment of the disabled, Ex-offenders, Expatriation, Families, Family violence, Fathers, Food, Food stamps, Foreign corporations, Foreign tax credit, Government information, Government paperwork, Health policy, Imports, Imprisonment, Income, Income tax, Indexing (Economic policy), Job training, Labor, Marriage, Married people, Medicaid, Medical care, Paternity, Rehabilitation of criminals, State and local government, State laws, Tax evasion, Tax returns, Tax shelters, Taxation, Taxation of foreign income, Trade, Welfare, Welfare eligibility, Welfare work participation, Working poor
Latest Action: 06/14/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend title XIV of the Social Security Act to ensure funding for grants to promote responsible fatherhood and strengthen low-income families, and for other purposes. 6/14/2007--Introduced. Responsible Fatherhood and Healthy Families Act of 2007 - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) with respect to: (1) funding for responsible fatherhood programs; (2) requirements to ensure procedures to address domestic violence; (3) activities promoting responsible fatherhood; (4) grants to healthy family partnerships for domestic violence prevention, for services for families and individuals affected by domestic violence, and for developing and implementing best practices; and (5) elimination of separate TANF work participation rate for two-parent families. Amends SSA title IV part D (Child Support and Establishment of Paternity) to prohibit a state from collecting any amount owed it by reason of costs [...] show full description
Latest Action: 05/08/2007 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. Bill TextA bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide for wage insurance for dislocated workers. 5/8/2007--Introduced. Worker Empowerment Act - Amends the Social Security Act to require each state to implement a reemployment adjustment assistance program that provides payment of 50% of the amount by which the wages received by an individual at the time of his or her separation from employment exceeds (if at all) the wages received by such individual from reemployment. Amends the Internal Revenue Code (relating to employment taxes) to impose a wage insurance contribution excise tax on every employer. Establishes a Wage Insurance Trust Fund in the Treasury, to which the equivalent of any such taxes received shall be appropriated to carry out this Act.
Latest Action: 05/08/2007 - Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Bill TextTo amend the Social Security Act to provide for wage insurance for dislocated workers. 5/8/2007--Introduced. Worker Empowerment Act - Amends the Social Security Act to require each state to implement a reemployment adjustment assistance program that provides payment of 50% of the amount by which the wages received by an individual at the time of his or her separation from employment exceeds (if at all) the wages received by such individual from reemployment. Amends the Internal Revenue Code (relating to employment taxes) to impose a wage insurance contribution excise tax on every employer. Establishes a Wage Insurance Trust Fund in the Treasury, to which the equivalent of any such taxes received shall be appropriated to carry out this Act.
Also tagged in: Adoption, Aged, Budgets, Caregivers, Children, Confidential communications, Congressional reporting requirements, Cost effectiveness, Criminal justice, Disability insurance, Disabled, Diseases, Employee vacations, Evidence (Law), Families, Family leave, Family violence, Federal employees, Finance, Foster home care, Geriatrics, Government employees, Grants-in-aid, Health policy, Labor, Law, Leave of absence, Medical care, Sick leave, Social services, State and local government, Unemployment insurance, Welfare, Women
Latest Action: 06/27/2007 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections. Bill TextTo amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to expand the scope of the Act, and for other purposes. 3/7/2007--Introduced. Family and Medical Leave Expansion Act - Family Income to Respond to Significant Transitions Insurance Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make five-year grants to a state or local government to pay for the federal share of the cost of carrying out projects that assist families by providing wage replacement for eligible individuals responding to caregiving needs resulting from the birth or adoption of a son or daughter or other family caregiving needs. Family and Medical Leave Fairness Act of 2005 [sic]- Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) to extend coverage to employees at worksites where the employer employs at least 25 (currently, 50) employees at the worksite and within 75 miles of that worksite. Amends FMLA and federal civil service law to entitle to leave those employees who must address the effects of [...] show full description
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