Legal Services NYC is the largest provider of civil legal services in the country and receives about a third of its funding from the federal government.

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From an alternative perspective, I mean, could the case be made that since only 2 percent of the funding comes from the federal government that could be a long-term benefit for public broadcasting to cut the purse strings from political pressure?

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Mann formerly was a professor at UVA, and while working there, he received a small grant from the state to support his work. (Never mind that the vast majority of his funding came from the federal government.) This was enough for Cucinelli to sue UVA, claiming that Prof.

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However, the chief prosecutor in the Shepard case testified against the proposal, saying the only thing local prosecutors need from the federal government is funding to deal with the requirements of trying such cases.

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At stake for Mr Rudd was his sweeping plan for the federal government to take over from the states most funding for Australia's 762 cash-stretched public hospitals.

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Finally, is the federal government allowed to expand the Medicaid program and pull funding from the states if they choose not to comply?

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The law calls for an expansion of eligibility for Medicaid, which involves spending by the federal government and the states, and threatens to remove existing Medicaid funding from states that don't participate in the expansion.

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Do you agree or disagree with converting the Medicaid program from the current system in which states and the federal government share oversight and funding responsibilities to a system of federal block grants to state governments, who would then decide how to allocate the grant funds to Medicaid recipients?

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Its programs opened up American politics at the state and local level to the long arm of Washington as never before, involving the federal government in everything from the construction of city parks to the curriculum and funding of local schools.

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