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We hope you blocked out enough time to answer this question about block grants. Heh. Sorry. You couldn't have blocked that joke if you tried. Or that one.
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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour
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brought to you by block grants the awards for baby
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macarthur Genius is all right Block grants What And here
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the potential answers What were block grants All right well
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who's got our states or the federal government that's been
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the million dollar question throughout u s history with legislators
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at national and local levels fighting over all that dough
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so let's see which answer best describes how block grants
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fit into this particular puzzle where block grants a introduced
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is part of the new deal Well actually block grants
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were created in the nineteen seventies during the age of
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new federalism which saw the devolution of power from the
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federal government back to the states So we're a little
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too early here for the new deal Our block grants
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different because see federal funds are distributed to the states
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with strict federal guidelines attached That sounds more like categorical
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grant which come with many strings about how money could
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be spent Well no strings here Sorry puppeteer our block
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grants de funds distributed to neighborhoods well we may need
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a new park but block grants are distributed to states
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as a whole not individual neighborhoods We're blocked Grants e
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declared unconstitutional in mccullough v maryland well mccullough v maryland
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was an eighteen nineteen supreme court case that expanded the
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federal government's ability to pass laws even when the power
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wasn't explicitly stated in the constitution So we're going to
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make a ruling here he's out which means that block
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grants are be federal funds distributed to the states with
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few strings attached as a part of the new federalism
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movement block grants gave states lots of leeway over how
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money was spent in federally funded social programs The option
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b is the correct answer And all this time we
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thought blocks were just for little kids and stepping on 00:02:01.04 --> [endTime] in the dark
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