Keeps: Armed forces retirement home provides healthcare, independent/assisted living care, and health and dental clinic

c services for the veterans veterans must be at least 65 years old and must of served for at least 90 days in the military each resident gets $57,000 per year the 1,600 veterans in each home will have nowhere to go after the military as they depend on the homes for assistance Child care and development block grant helps provide child care services to low-income families enables low-income families to work, look for work, or train and receive the education they need to work a large step in helping low-income families receive the education necessary to help improve their living conditions Food stamps (incl. Puerto Rico) ultimate goal of this program is to help low income families get food in 2011, families of four that earned up to $29,064 were eligible for up to $668 in food stamps is depended on by millions of people and because helped poverty in America dropped by 8% taking away food stamps in 2010 would of stopped putting food on the table of more than 42.9 million people Earned income tax credit (EITC) established to help low income families pocket cash after taxes as tax return, helped 26.8 million people escape poverty and home eviction 5 million people escape poverty each year due to the EITC with 2.2 million of the people being children Section 8 rental assistance also known as the housing choice voucher program for assisting low-income families, elderly people, and disabled people find safe and sanitary houses housing voucher eligibility depends on the total annual gross income and family size in general, a familys income cannot exceed more than 50% of the medium income of the area they live gave about $60 million to help low-income individuals find jobs and help with other needs

Cuts: Child tax credit | Cut: $25,316 million $1,000 tax credit that can be claimed by people with eligible children and up to $130,000 in income should not act as an incentive to have kids that cannot be afforded there is little correlation between recipients of this tax credit and level of income there are other programs that focus on low-income people Refundable portion of alternative minimum tax credit | Cut: $40 million the alternative minimum tax is to try and prevent people with higher incomes from paying little or no income tax in 2012, the exemption amount for a couple was $45,000 and $33,750 for an individual people paying a tax due to their high income do not need extra money from the government Unemployment insurance (UI) programs | Cut: $20,000 million unemployment rate has been decreasing and is predicted to continue decreasing fewer people unemployed means less money will be needed for these programs Federal Government in their 2013 budget is cutting about $25 billion so $20 billion in cuts is appropriate Adoption tax credit | Cut: $410 million up to $12,650 for individuals or couples that adopt children average adoptive family has $60,00 income with parents are in their forties most adoptive families are financially stable and not in need of a tax credit Refugee assistance | Cut: $800 million a refugee fears being persecuted in their country because of reasons such as race or religion refugees must have some sort of connection to the US such as being previously employed by the US or having someone closely related to them living in the US provides refugees with aid such as cash and medical assistance, social services, and preventative services Instead of spending money on people from foreign countries, this money could better be used on other programs in the US