Trump HHS uzatvára kanceláriu, ktorá definuje hranice chudoby pre 80 miliónov

Trump HHS uzatvára kanceláriu, ktorá definuje hranice chudoby pre 80 miliónov

The layoffs of President Donald Trump in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) concerned the entire office that the federal poverty guidelines defined. These guidelines determine whether millions of Americans are entitled to health programs such as medicaid, food aid, childcare and other services, former employees reported.

prepúšťanie bez varovania

Malý tím s znalosťami technických údajov pracoval v kancelárii zástupcu ministra plánovania a hodnotenia (ASPE). Their termination was part of a greater restructuring in the HHS, which came without warning and raised the officials why they were "dismantled", which was in the bureaucracy language for "reduction of the staff".

Neistá budúcnosť pokynov pre chudobu

"I suspect that offices were released that had the word 'data' or 'statistics' in their name," said a released employee, a social scientist whose name is kept anonymous for fear of reprisals. „Zdalo sa to náhodne, pokiaľ vieme.“ One of the dismissed was Kendall Swenson, who had led the development of poverty guidelines for many years and was considered the competence center on this topic.

škrty pri pomáhaní pre rodiny s nízkym príjmom

The closure of the office could lead to cuts in the next year with support for low-income families, unless the Trump administration restores the positions or transfers its tasks differently, Robin Ghertner, explained the dismissed head of the Department of Data and Technica analysis, which monitored the guidelines.

Dôležité funkcie pokynov pre chudobu

The poverty guidelines are "needed by many people and programs", according to Timothy Smeeding, professor of economics at the La Folette School of Public Affairs at the University of Wisconsin. „Ak si myslíte, že niekto, kto bol prepustený a mal by byť zastavený, by Swenson bol zjavnou voľbou,“ dodal.

Úloha ASPE

According to a budget law of 1981, HHS is obliged to adapt the poverty boundaries from the Census Bureau annually, to adapt them to inflation and create guidelines that are used by agencies and states to determine who is entitled to different types of help. Existuje špeciálna metóda na vytvorenie pokynov, ktoré zahŕňajú úpravy a výpočty, vysvetlené Ghertner. Swenson and three other employees prepare the numbers independently and checked them together before they were released every year in January.

Chýbajúci prenos vedomostí

Everyone in Ghertner's office was informed without warning that he will be sent to the administrative vacation by June 1st until the employment relationship officially ended. „Vo vláde nie je doslova nikto, kto vie, ako vypočítať usmernenia,“ uviedol. „A keďže sme všetci zamknutí z našich počítačov, nemôžeme nikoho naučiť, ako ich vypočítať.“

Zlúčenie kancelárií a pokles počtu zamestnancov

According to a former employee, the Aspe had about 140 employees and now only has about 40. The restructuring in the HHS led to a merger with the agency for health research and quality (AHRQ), whose number of employees has dropped from 275 to around 80, according to a former Ahrq officer who wanted to remain anonymous.

Reakcie na prepúšťanie

HHS has explained that around 10,000 employees were released and the total number of employees through other measures, such as a program for promoting early standards, was reduced by around 20,000. Úrad však nezverejnil podrobnosti o vykonaných škrtoch a neposkytol žiadnych konkrétnych prepustených zamestnancov.

Naliehavá potreba akcie

"These employees were informed that they could not come into their offices, so there was no exchange of knowledge," said Wendell Primus, who worked in Aspe during the Clinton administration. „Nemali čas trénovať niekoho alebo prenášať údaje.“

Demografický účinok pokynov pre chudobu

Ochrana rodín s nízkym inicomom

One of eight Americans is dependent on the supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food brands, and 40 % of newborns and their mothers receive food aid through the Women, Infants, and Children program, which is also based on the federal poverty border.

Integrita programu HHS

former employees of the office emphasized that they were not unfaithful to the president, but understood that their tasks were to support the goals of the administration. „Pokúsili sme sa podporiť program Maha Agenda,“ uviedol sociálny vedec a odvolával sa na koncept Kennedyho „Make America Health Open“. „Aj keď sa nezhodovalo s našimi osobnými svetonázormi, chceli sme byť užitoční.“

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