After months of work, President Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships has sent him a list of proposals on revamping the White House’s faith-based program. The proposals will also set priorities for the office and will renew debate — and media coverage — of this controversial initiative.
As President Barack Obama delivered his first State of the Union address on Jan. 27, 2010, religious groups that support health care reform were pressing the White House and Congress to continue to try to pass a comprehensive overhaul. Prospects for that dimmed considerably with the Republican victory in Massachusetts’ Senate election Jan. 19.
Federal budget proposals generally toss about words such as deficits, subsidies, discretionary spending and annual appropriations. This year when President Bush unveiled his $2.57 trillion 2006 budget, another word emerged: values. In an effort to rein in the expanding deficit, Bush’s budget eliminates or reduces a wide variety of education, health and housing programs that [...]
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