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Recent Examples of Synonyms for block grants
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In June 2025, university officials said 90 grants had ended, leading to a loss of $50 million in federal research funding.
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This distinction eliminates dependence on foreign sources and grants operators total control over their fuel supply chain.
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The states that move fastest will not necessarily be the ones with the most generous subsidies.
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While the expiration of the enhanced ACA subsidies made insurance more expensive for millions of consumers, experts say other health costs, such as prescription drugs, medical tests and hospital bills, are also squeezing consumers.
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The plans also offer enrollees additional benefits, such as eyeglasses, hearing aids, and prescription drug coverage, and have now attracted more than half of all Medicare enrollees.
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This is a dramatic increase from 2010, when the CDC reported just 4% of adults used prescription sleep aids.
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Just 22% of California households are receiving retirement income, such as pensions, annuities or retirement account distributions, the analysis found.
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Non-qualified annuities Annuities can provide you with valuable retirement income, but not all annuities receive identical legal protections.
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Therefore, union contracts and social democracies alike pair strong wages and entitlements with deliberate policies that help ordinary households accumulate assets too.
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Soaring interest rates and entitlements drive debt toward disaster.
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In a district presentation the week school budgets were released this spring, principals were urged to tap any available dollars in the special funds containing parent fundraising, rental and other revenue before appealing their staffing allocations.
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As that ownership base matures — if corporate treasury adoption accelerates, if sovereign wealth funds make meaningful allocations, if Bitcoin ETFs achieve the same kind of institutional bedrock that gold ETFs have — the price behavior during stress events may change.
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“Block grants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/block%20grants. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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