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Block grants are large sums of money provided to the states with few stipulations as to how the money has to be used. This is part of the New Federalism program that intends to use this type of cash infusion in an effort to restore states to the power lost through Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal Program.
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Which type of program requires state government to spend their own money to meet standards imposed on them by the federal government?
A: categorical grant B: block grant C: program grant D: formula grant E: unfunded mandate
Which statement most accurately describes state governments' interaction with local governments?
state governments grant local governments their power but do not tend to interfere with their day -to-day responsibilities
If the federal government provided a grant to a state with only the general condition that the money be used for education programs this would be a?
In a fiscal federal form of government, a block grant is a large sum of money granted by the national government to a regional government with only general provisions as to the way it is to be spent, in contrast to a categorical grant, which has stricter and specific provisions on the way it is to be spent.An advantage of block grants is that they allow regional governments to experiment with different ways of spending money with the same goal in mind.
Are categorical grants preferable to block grants?
Well, it depends. It is apparent that block grants are preferable to the states and governors, since they are more broad and less detailed on how the money can and should be spent, whereas a categorical grant is "categorized" and "specific" and is quite detailed in how the state is allowed to spend the money given from the Federal government.
Is a direct payment from the state to the local government?
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