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handle is hein.amenin/aeiabzl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: M -I M Rethinking Federalism Block Grants and Federal, State, and Z Local Responsibilities M) m Claude E. Barfield 0 m The Reagan administration is committed to a fundamental reordering of the responsibilities of federal, state, and local governments. In January 1981, the president proposed to consolidate almost a hundred categorical aid programs into six large-scale block grants to states. Congress made substantial changes, however, in the Reagan block-grant proposals, removing important categorical g\%<---- Off I programs from them and adding restrictions to the block grants O it did enact. The president vowed to go back and back and back CD to get more flexibility for the states and to consolidate additional NM categorical programs into block grants. This study describes the history and the current operation of the federal grant system and suggests model provisions for legislation authorizing block grants. It also describes the political consequences of the Reagan proposals, particularly the challenge these proposals present to special interest groups and to congressional working arrangements and relationships. The concluding chapter presents a framework for a broader revision of responsibilities. The federal government would assume policy and financial responsibility for the welfare system and for the provision of national health insurance. At the same time, it would transfer to state and local governments programs such as education, transportation, community and economic development, social services, law enforcement, and the environment. Claude E. Barfield, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, served from 1979 to 1981 as co-staff director of the President's Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties. US $12.00 ISBN 13 978-0-8447-3479-8 ISBN-10: 0 8447 3479 9 The Reagan administration has the opportunity to guide and shape a major reshuffling and redivision of responsibilities in the American federal system. If it succeeds, this sorting out of 9 7E0144 734793 responsibilities can combine political benefits with the achieve- ment of a sounder, more rational federal system.

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