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1. Share of Cost, Reality outPACEs Energy Dept.’s green retrofitting program Maryland homeowners who want federal help to add energy-efficiency improvements are going to have to wait for a while, as Cody Calamaio reports in the Montgomery County, MD Gazette.  The same holds true for would-be green home repair projects around the country. The federal program, called Property-Assessed Clean Energy, or PACE, was introduced as part […]...
2. Lifeline Program to Make Sure More Low-income Americans Access Affordable Phone Service The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is reforming its Lifeline program to stop waste and ensure that multiple carriers do not get support for serving the same consumer. The Lifeline program helps low-income Americans get affordable phone service. Consumers are allowed to have only one Lifeline-subsidized phone service and have 30 days to choose which subsidized phone service to […]...
3. Share of Cost, High-quality preschool program produces long-term economic payoff High-quality preschool program produces long-term economic payoff ...
4. Department of Labor Makes $20 Million in Grants Available through Disability Employment Initiative, Deadline June 1 Department of Labor Makes $20 Million in Grants Available through Disability Employment Initiative, Deadline June 1...
5. HUD Announces New Program to Help Homeowners at Risk of Foreclosure Share of Cost: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and NeighborWorks® America have announced a new program called the Emergency Homeowners’ Loan Program (EHLP). EHLP helps homeowners who have experienced a reduction in income and are at risk of foreclosure due to involuntary unemployment, underemployment due to economic conditions or a medical condition. […]...
6. Share of Cost Social security at 75: don’t mess with success (Rep. Sander Levin) In the mid-1980s, someone at the Coca-Cola Company had the bright idea of changing the formula of the nation’s most popular soft drink. In one of the biggest public relations debacles of all time, the company’s effort to convince Americans to switch to New Coke fell flat on its face. As it turned out, people […]...
7. Share of Cost: Re-Reinventing government, with a high-tech focus John Mecklin of Miller-McCune was inspired (in part by a vexing visit to his local Social Security office) to zero in on ways the federal government could become more efficient.  He highlights a plan by which government could save $1 trillion or more by using high-tech infrastructure solutions that have already saved billions in the […]...
8. Lessons For The New CMS Innovation Center From The Medicare Health Support Program The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act establishes a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The center is intended to enhance the CMS’s role in promoting much-needed improvements in payment and service delivery. Lessons from the Medicare Health Support Program, a chronic care pilot program […]...
9. Share of Cost, Shire Announces Judges Panel For New Scholarship Program For Students Diagnosed With ADHD Shire announces a distinguished panel of judges for their new scholarship program being offered to students in the United States diagnosed with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)....
10. Share of Cost. Federal News Digest for July 2, 2012 Share of Cost. Federal News Digest for July 2, 2012...
11. Rearranging the waiting room chairs Monique Garcia of the Chicago Tribune reports that the Illinois Senate voted 58-0 to enact a series of reforms to the state Medicaid system. As the vote indicates, the reforms are hard to argue with. Unfortunately, as I’ve reported, they do very little to resolve the state’s Medicaid financing crisis — a crisis that can […]...
12. Share of Cost: 6 Short Videos Discuss Affordable Care Act Changes Coming in 2014 The California HealthCare Foundation (CHCF) has put together a series of 6 short, under 5-minute videos on what changes to expect from the Affordable Care Act in the next 2 years. Some highlights of the changes happening by 2014 include: Government-funded health insurance (Medi-Cal) will expand to cover 2 to 3 million more Californians who […]...
13. Share of Cost, Federal News Digest for July 3, 2012 Washington Post Friday’s storm raises questions about safety of cloud computing [General Services Administration, cloud computing] – Craig Timberg reports that there are concerns about the government’s shift to cloud computing – a process of storing information remotely at data centers controlled by Amazon or Google – in light of power outages caused by severe […]...
14. Computer-based Program May Help Relieve Some ADHD Symptoms In Children An intensive, five-week working memory training program shows promise in relieving some of the symptoms of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in children, a new study suggests. Researchers found significant changes for students who completed the program in areas such as attention, ADHD symptoms, planning and organization, initiating tasks, and working memory....
15. Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps people to buy and eat nutritious food Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) helps people to buy and eat nutritious food...