Reentry of Ex-Drug Offenders
No-Charge School Breakfast
Mental Health
Texas Health Insurance Coverage
Assisting Needy Families
100
Individuals using this drug make up the largest percentage of drug users in Texas.
What is marijuana?
100
This ability of students is greatly increased in class if they are well-fed and therefore eases the strain on teachers who often spend valuable instructional time refocusing hungry students.
What is the ability to pay attention?
100
In Texas, a very high percentage of individuals with mental illness do not receive this medical benefit due to our state’s especially high barriers.
What is medical insurance?
100
Texas now has the next-to-worst uninsured rate for kids, after this unlucky state.
What is Nevada?
100
Federal government administered this cash assistance program through the tax system to aid poor families. The amount of cash assistance increases for poor families with more children.
What is the Earned Income Credit?
200
This program is a federally funded nutrition assistance program that combats hunger and provides nutritious foods for low-income families and individuals but Ex-Drug Offenders are not allowed to participate this program.
What is the food stamp program?
200
This type of school breakfast is the one of the three types of breakfast other than “free” and “paid” meal offered by schools participating in the School Breakfast Program.
What is reduced?
200
This disorder related with drug and mental illness—often referred to together as “behavioral health”—range from mild to severe, temporary or chronic, and are mostly treatable with effective medications and clinical interventions.
What is substance use?
200
Texans remain less likely to get this type of health coverage than Americans on average; 0.6% of Texans were insured thru their own job, or their spouse or parent’s, compared to 55.1% in the US.
What is job-related insurance?
200
The child and dependent care credit is the expense multiplied by a percentage that decreases as household income increases. This percentage is the smallest percentage that a taxpayer can get for the child and dependent care credit.
What is 20%?
300
This president singed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act which imposed a lifetime ban on receiving food and cash assistance for those convicted of a drug felony in 1996.
Who is President Bill Clinton?
300
It is mandatory for schools in Texas to provide breakfast service if more than this percentage of student body qualify for free or reduced lunch.
What is 10%?
300
This act of 2010 provides the opportunity to expand health insurance coverage for individuals and businesses through private insurance as well as Medicaid.
What is is The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)?
300
More than half of these uninsured children are US citizens or legal residents who could be enrolled in this insurance benefit but are not.
What is Medicaid/CHIP?
300
A four-member family earning less than this amount is living below poverty line in Texas. "MJk" for basketball fans...
What is 23,050?
400
This happens often to minor drug offenders from state jail who experiencing difficulty on entering the society after released from the jail because of lack rehabilitative or workforce support.
What is recidivism / “revolving door” system?
400
A student from a household with this number of members receives free breakfast if the annual household income is below $29,965 and reduced breakfast if income is below $42,643. Studying quadratic equations is easier after breakfast!
What is 4?
400
This public insurance for children with incomes above Medicaid limits but below 200 percent of the federal poverty line, also provides substance abuse and mental services.
What is the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)?
400
This type of people (aged 19-64) in Texas are nearly twice as likely to be uninsured as children.
What are working-age adults?
400
In Texas, this governmental agency administers the work program that helps low-income families. It is also the payer of many unemployment compensation you will see in tax centers.
What is the Texas Workforce Commission?
500
This number of states (majority) including Texas and Washington DC have completely eliminated or modified the ban on receiving food and cash assistance to help Ex-Drug Offenders better re-enter the society. Jackie Robinson would be proud of the progess...
What is 42?
500
This legislation enacted the no-charge school breakfast program.
What is Child Nutrition Act of 1966?
500
Texas law mandates that large group plans with this number or more full-time employees ("XL" group plans) must provide benefits for specified serious mental illnesses (SMI) and other disorders.
What is 50?
500
This number of million of Texans were uninsured in 2011, essentially the size of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
What is 6.2 million? (5.7-6.7 acceptable)
500
Every year Texas receives this block grant from the federal government, abbreviated TANF. Texas spend this grant on helping low-income families.
What is Temporary Assistance for Needy Families ?