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Last updated: August 19, 2009


*Direct Assistance


Abortion

The United States Supreme Court should overrule Harris v McRae by ruling that federal funding restrictions for abortion services violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fifth Amendment. (UNT)

The United States Supreme Court should overrule Harris v. McRae (448 U.S. 297 (1980)) by holding that restrictions on the provision of Medicaid funding for abortion violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (DDW)

Congress should repeal the Hyde Amendment (no plan in file, GTOWN)
The United States Supreme Court should rule that equal protection requires funding for abortions.

The United States federal government should provide Medicaid coverage for abortion. (DDI)
Text: The United States federal government should remove restrictions that prevent Medicaid funding from going to abortions. (Northwestern)

The United States Supreme Court should overrule Harris v. McRae (448 U.S. 297 (1980)) by holding that restrictions on the provision of Medicaid funding for abortion violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. (DDI)

The United States Federal Government should exempt the Indian Health Services from the Hyde Amendment restrictions. (DDI)

The United States Supreme Court should overrule Harris vs. McRae (448 U.S. 297 (1980)) requiring funding for abortion through Medicaid under the Fourteenth Amendment. (DDI)

PLAN:  The United States federal government should guarantee access to comprehensive reproductive health services for persons living in poverty. (UMKC)

Block Grants


The United States federal government should substantially increase antipoverty block grants to state and local governments that maximize community particiaption in social service development.


Broadband

THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE LifeLine and LinkUp to include broadband. (GTOWN)

Text: The United States federal government should include access to broadband in Lifeline and Linkup.
(MI)

Text: The United States federal government should include access to broadband in the Universal Service Fund. (MI)

The United States should extend financial assistance to defray the costs of broadband service to persons living in poverty in the United States. (SDI)

The United States Federal Government should include broadband access in the Universal Service Fund. (Iowa)

The United States Federal Government should expand the Life-Line and Link-Up program (as offered under the Federal Communication Commission’s Universal Services Fund) to include broadband services.
(optional additional part of plan
The United States Federal Government should expand the National Emergency Network to lower-income persons living in the United States by reimbursing (via Link-Up services) for access to that network and offering public-private partnerships to service providers willing to expand the network by solely reaching out to lower-income persons living in the United States. (SDI)


Community Health Care Centers

The United States federal government should substantially increase support to federally qualified health centers for primary health care services provided for persons living in poverty in the United States (SDI)

Dandridge

The United States Supreme Court should grant certiorari to a relevant test case and rule that the application of the rational basis standard in Dandridge v. Williams was unconstitutional

The United States Supreme Court should overturn Dandridge v. Williams

**The United States Supreme Court should grant certiorari to a relevant test case and rule that the rational basis standard may not be applied to claims for social services by persons living the United States

The United States Supreme Court should rule that the rational basis standard is unconstitutional

The United States Supreme Court should grant certiorari to a relevant test case and rule that the rational basis standard is unconstitutional

The United States Supreme Court should rule that poverty is a suspect classification which triggers heightened judicial scrutiny (SCFI)

Disabled

The United States Federal Government should substantially increase social services to persons living in poverty in the United States by amending the Fair Housing Act to provide accessability services to all individuals living in poverty in the United States. (UNT)

Education

PLAN: The United States Supreme Court should rule that persons living in poverty are eligible for preferential access to primary and secondary schools. (Northwestern)

Thus the plan: The United States Supreme Court should overrule Milliken v. Bradley 418 U.S. 717  (1974), ruling that courts have authority to impose inter-district remedies to a single-district socio-economic segregation problem in instances of concentrated poverty. (SDI)

The United States federal government should provide free access to higher education to all persons living in poverty in the United States (SCFI)


Food Stamps

PLAN: THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE BENEFITS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITIONAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.  (UNT)
 

PLAN: The United States Department of Agriculture should substantially increase funding for food stamps and adjust quality control standards to be a little more lenient, but not too lenient, ya digg? (DDI)


Food Stamps

PLAN: The United States Department of Agriculture should provide substantial funding for the expansion of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program and add a provision to cap the increase. (DDI)

PLAN: The United States Department of Agriculture should substantially increase funding for food stamps and adjust quality control standards to be a little more lenient, but not too lenient, ya digg?

Full Employment


Plan- The United States federal government should adopt an Employer of Last Resort program (DDI)


Plan- The United States should guarantee employment for unemployed persons (DDI)

Plan: The United States federal government should guarantee universal full employment to all persons living in poverty in the United States. We can clarify   (SDI)


Gangs

The United States federal government should enact the Gang Abatement and Prevention Act of 2009. Funding and Enforcement guaranteed. (K-State)

Head Start

The United States Federal Government should require a college degree of Head Start teachers. The United States Federal Government should enforce standardized curricula regarding literacy, math, and nutrition upon Head Start programs (UNT)

The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States by substantially increasing funding for Early Head Start programs (CAL)

The United States federal government should provide the necessary funding to expand early childhood education and child care assistance for persons living in poverty, including, but not limited to: accreditation resources and incentives, and full subsidization of nationally accredited child care through Even Start, Early Head Start, and Head Start programs and/or Child Care and Development Block Grants. (GDI)


Thus the plan: the United States federal government should fully fund Head Start. We reserve the right to clarify - you should ask us questions especially if it has something to do with what you’re going to run. (DDI)

PLAN- THE United States federal government SHOULD DO SOME STUFF TO FIX HEAD START (ddi)

The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States by providing universal Early Head Start programs in all Title I schools (SDI)

Thus we offer the following plan: The United States federal government should remove all financial restrictions to the provision of health services for abortions through Medicaid (SDI)


Health Care

PLAN: THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD IMPLEMENT A FEDERAL SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOR ALL UNINSURED PERSONS IN THE UNITED STATES. (DDI)

Plan: The United States federal government should create a low cost federally run healthcare insurance program, to compete with the private sector, targeted at persons living under two hundred percent of the poverty line.  (DDI)

Housing

The United States federal government should create a Consumer Financial Protection Agency and provide necessary resources for the Federal Housing Administration to refinance home loans for persons living in poverty in the United States. (Northwestern)

Legal Services Corporation

Plan: The United States federal government should eliminate restrictions on the use of non-federal funds applicable to the Legal Services Corporation. (GTOWN)

The United States Federal Government should amend the Omnibus Consolidated Rescissions and Appropriations Act of 1996 to legalize Legal Services Corporation-Funded Lawyers to bring Class Actions Lawsuits (DDI)

The Supreme Court should rule that the Unites States is obligated under Article 18 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties to address de facto discrimination as a violation of the right to due process protected by the International Convention on the Elimination of all forms of Racial Discrimination by extending the Gideon v. Wainwright decision to affirm a universal right to legal counsel. (DDI)

The United States Supreme Court should rule all Legal Service Corporation funding restrictions concerning class action lawsuits and the claiming of attorney’s fees unconstitutional on the grounds of the right to counsel clause of the Sixth amendment. (DDI)

The USFG should pass the Civil Access to Justice Act, and in doing so, lift the restrictions on the LSC and increase federal funding for legal services

or

The USFG should lift the funding restriction on immigrants on the LSC.

or

The USFG should substantially increase funds towards the LSC

 (Northwestern)

The United States federal government should eliminate the 1996 congressional restrictions applicable to the Legal Services Corporation. (LSC)

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States by enacting the Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009 (WDW)


Marriage

The United States federal government should substantially increase funding for the expansion of marriage promotion services for persons living in poverty and increase incentives within the welfare system to promote marriage. (DDW)

The United States federal government should substantially increase funding for the expansion of marriage promotion services for persons living in poverty in the United States and increase incentives within the welfare system to promote marriage.  (SCFI)


Medicaid

Plan: The United States Federal Government should reform Medicaid by:
-Eliminating all eligibility requirements except Income
-Linking provider rates to Medicare
-Providing counter-cyclical financing assistance
-Simplifying program enrollment and renewal
-Creating a marketing campaign to increase program awareness
-Researching and Implementing measures to increase quality of care and decrease cost
Funding and Enforcement guaranteed through normal means.
*Removing Federal Barriers (GDI)

The United States Federal Government should reform Medicaid into a single payer system. (DDI)

Plan 1: The United States federal government should require physicians providing charity health care services to low-wage working persons whose health care coverage reimburses service providers at rates lower than those scheduled by Medicare, or those those that do not have insurance at all, electronically bill the state Medicaid agency as per protocol.  In exchange for providing these charity health care services to Medicaid patients, the United States federal government should provide physicians a federal income tax credit and protect physicians from liability for certain harm caused by acts or omissions while providing "routine" charitable care. (SDI)

Plan 2: In exchange for providing charity health care services to Medicaid patients, the United States federal government should provide physicians a federal income tax credit and protect physicians from liability for certain harm caused by acts or omissions while providing "routine" charitable care. (SDI)

Plan 3: In exchange for providing charity health care services to Medicaid patients, the United States federal government should provide physicians necessary incentives.   (SDI)



Needle Exchange


Thus the plan: The United States federal government should and fully fund and enforce a comprehensive needle exchange program within the United States for persons living in poverty in the United States. We reserve the right to clarify. (DDI)


Queer persons

PLAN: The United States federal government should substantially increase social services by expanding programs that emphasize the needs and priorities of queer persons living in poverty.  (UNT)

PLAN: The United States federal government should substantially increase social services to take into account the perspectives of queer youth living in poverty.  (UNT)

Rural Areas
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States by extending these services to rural areas.
Runaways

THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES WILL PASS HOUSE RESOLUTION 3409.  WE’LL CLARIFY. (Place to Call Home Act) (UNT)

School Lunches

The United States Federal Government should pass the Hunger Free Schools Act and provide states with the necessary funds to cover the financial shortfalls in enrolling new students into the Free and Reduced Lunches Program (GDI)

The United States Federal Government should pass the Hunger Free Schools Act and provide states with the necessary funds to cover the financial shortfalls in enrolling new students into the Free and Reduced Lunches Program. (WDW)


Socialism

The United States federal government should provide complete and universal services for all possible social needs for persons living in poverty. (CAL)

Transgender

The Supreme Court of the United States of America should rule that social services for persons in poverty that are administered on the basis of biological sex should instead be administered on the basis of gender identity. (Northwestern)

*Federal Barriers/Regulations

Cars/Transportation

Thus the Plan: The United States federal government should add cars to the list of eligible purchases for the Individual Development Accounts tax credit program and eliminate the vehicle asset test in federally funded, means-tested work support programs. (CAL)

Plan #2: The United States federal government should pass House Resolution 3599 from the 110th congress. (CAL)

Medicaid -- Immigration

The United States federal government should repeal the prohibitions of the Welfare Reform Act and Section 642 of the Immigration Reform Law of 1996 concerning and extend Medicaid coverage to persons not possessing legal United States citizenship living in poverty in the United States and should allow such persons to purchase employer-based health insurance coverage. (DDW)

plan: the united states federal government should remove medicaid reporting requirements and eligibility restrictions on undocumented immigrants and immigrants who have been in the country for less than five years. (GTOWN)

The United States federal government should no longer require individuals applying for Medicaid to disclose their citizenship or immigration status. (GDI)

The United States federal government should lift citizenship requirements for social services for persons living in poverty in the United States (GDI)

The United States Congress should Repeal Section 434 of the **Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act** and Section 642 of the Immigration Reform Law.  (DDI)

 Plan: The United States federal government should remove the citizenship requirement in Medicaid. (DDI)

The United States federal government should eliminate all immigration status restrictions on Medicaid eligibility for undocumented and documented immigrants living in poverty. (Iowa)

The United States Federal Government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States by repealing the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act (PRWOA), section 642 of the Immigration Reform Law and Section 434 of the Welfare Reform Act.  (SCFI)

Plan:
The United States Federal Government should substantially increase social services by removing the restrictions on non-citizen persons living in poverty from having access to federally funded healthcare.  (SCFI)

Plan:
The United States federal government should no longer require individuals applying for Medicaid to disclose their citizenship or immigration status. (SCFI)

Medicaid Waivers

Plan: The United States federal government should approve and fund all 1115 and 1915 Medicaid waivers that increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States.. (Gonzaga)


Medicare

Plan: The United States federal government should eliminate the 24-month waiting period for persons with work related disabilities attempting to qualify for Medicare. (UNT)

Sex Workers

The United States federal government should give all necessary resources to non-governmental organizations for the provision of social services to sex workers in the United States. (DDI)

The United States federal government should eliminate the severe forms of trafficking, law enforcement cooperation, and prosecutorial discretion criteria from the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000.

The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for trafficked persons living in the United States including the removal of eligibility caps and the “severity”, ‘hardship” and “prosecution cooperation” certification requirements contained in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. (SDI)


OR

 The United States federal government should eliminate the severe forms of trafficking, law enforcement cooperation, and prosecutorial discretion criteria from Public Law 106-386.   (SDI)


Welfare – Marriage Promotion

Plan:  The United States federal government should require increased allocation of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families funds without consideration of marriage status. (DDW)

Welfare – General

The United States federal government should amend the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to exclude all provisions that condition the eligibility for temporary assistance of parents and caretakers of United States citizenship living in poverty (KY)

The United States Federal Government should establish “the elimination of poverty” as the sole purpose of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program.  A federal minimum poverty assistance benefit will be set at a level equivalent to the poverty guidelines issued by the Department of Health and Human Services.  This assistance level may not be reduced or eliminated by current federal or state restrictions based on time limits, work requirements, marital status, children born out of wedlock, or non-cooperation with paternity establishment or child support enforcement (GDI)

  The United States federal government should increase funding to recipients of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families regardless of the amount of time they have been receiving benefits and increase funding for child care assistance (Child Care and Development Fund) and job training programs. (DDI)

Plan: the United States supreme court should rule that the restrictions on Temporary Assistance for Needy Families violate the principle of Customary International Law that states must utilize the maximum of its available  resources to progressively achieve the full realization of the economic and  social rights of its citizens.  (DDI)

The United States Supreme Court should rule that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families act from restricting social services based on marital or reproductive choices. (SDI)

Wyman

In an appropriate test case the United States Supreme Court will rule that barriers to accessing social services for people living in poverty are presumptively invalid and must be subject to equal protection analysis, reaffirming its holding in Goldberg v. Kelly that people have a property interest in accessing services for which they qualify.   (UNT)


*Federal jurisdiction


Census

The United States federal government should hire persons living in poverty in the United States to conduct the 2010 census. (DDI)

Citizenship

Thus the plan: The United States federal government should lift citizenship requirements for social services for persons living in poverty in the United States. (Gonzaga)
GITMO  

Thus we present the following plan: The United States federal government should release all relevant classified information to Guantanamo detainees. The procedure for releasing this evidence should be through CIPA. (DDI)


Military

Plan: The Department of Defense should substantially expand the pre-enlistment educational programs within the Armed Forces, GED Plus and College First, [for persons living in poverty in the United States.] (DDW)

The United States federal government should allow illegal immigrants in the U.S. to gain citizenship by serving four years in the military  (CAL)

The United States Department of Defense should substantially increase benefits to enlisted members of the Armed Forces.

The United States Department of Defense should substantially increase salary levels of enlisted members of the Armed Forces. (ddi)


Immigrant Detainees

plan: the united states federal government should expand health care for detained immigrants.  (GTOWN)

HUS THE PLAN: THE IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT AGENCY SHOULD ENSURE THAT DETAINEES AT IMMIGRANT DETENTION CENTERS IN THE UNITED STATES HAVE ACCESS TO PHONES AND FREE LEGAL COUNSEL. (DDI)



Natives – Law & Order Act

Thus the Plan:  The United States Federal government should pass the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2009.


Natives -- Bison

The united states federal government should expand the food distribution program on Indian reservations, including culturally appropriate foods procured from Indian producers using traditional agricultural practices. (UNT)

Natives -- Indian Health Services

The United States Federal Government will reauthorize the Indian Health Care Improvement Act of 1976 and provide an increase in discretionary funding for the federal Indian Health Service, including funds for culturally-specific health care programs and Indian Health Service affiliated services provided through both on and off-reservation health service programs for American Indians and Alaskan Natives (GDI)

  Plan: The United States federal government should provide sufficient funding to recipients of need-based Indian Health Services (Northwestern)

Homeless addresses

The United States Federal Government should make all social services for persons living in poverty in the United States available to persons living in poverty in the United States regardless of whether or not the recipient has an address.   (UNT)

PO Boxes

The United States Supreme Court should rule that people without a permanent address should be provided access to no-fee post office boxes (MI)

The United States Postal Service should make free post office boxes available to persons without permanent residences. (DDI)

Thus, the United States federal government should provide no-fee postal boxes for all persons without a permanent residence and address in the United States. (DDI)

Prisons

The United States Supreme Court should mandate that The United States Congress should fully fund federal and state prison health care reform by substantially increasing education, health screening, risk reduction, disease treatment and vaccination services.   (DDW)

The United States federal government should provide funding for the protection, prevention, and treatment of individuals that are at-risk for sexual assault in federal civilian prisons. (MI)

Thus we stand resolved that the Supreme Court of the United States of America should require all prison inmates suffering from mental illnesses and psychological pathologies to be required to receive specialized medical and psychological treatment in specialized psychiatric institutions by ruling that the “cruel and unusual punishment” clause applies to denying sufficient psychological treatment to prison inmates with mental illnesses. We’ll Clarify (DDI)

Plan: The United States federal government should make rape actionable under the Prison Litigation Reform Act. (DDI)


Puerto Rico

Thus the plan: The United States federal government should pass the Puerto Rico Work and Empowerment Act. (DDI)

Refugees

THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SHOULD GUARANTEE LEGAL REPRESENTATION FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS IN THE UNITED STATES. (DDW)

Reparations

Text: The United States federal government should provide sufficient reparations to descendents, living in the United States, of those enslaved in the United States. (Northwestern)

Unaccompanied Minors

Plan: The Congress of the United States should amend to Trafficking Victims Protection Act to mandate guardians ad litem for all unaccompanied alien children in the United States

Veterans

Plan: The United States federal government should expand mental healthcare services for veterans in poverty. (CAL)

The United States Federal Government should pass House Resolution 3329.
 Note: House Resolution 3329 is also known as the Homes for Heroes Act of 2008.  The Green evidence on page 11 gives a good summary of what the bill does. (SDI)