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We hope you blocked out enough time to answer this question about block grants. Heh. Sorry. You couldn't have blocked that joke if you tried. Or that one. 

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Thank you We sneak and here's your shmoop du jour

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brought to you by block grants the awards for baby

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macarthur Genius is all right Block grants What And here

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the potential answers What were block grants All right well

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who's got our states or the federal government that's been

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the million dollar question throughout u s history with legislators

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at national and local levels fighting over all that dough

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so let's see which answer best describes how block grants

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fit into this particular puzzle where block grants a introduced

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is part of the new deal Well actually block grants

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were created in the nineteen seventies during the age of

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new federalism which saw the devolution of power from the

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federal government back to the states So we're a little

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too early here for the new deal Our block grants

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different because see federal funds are distributed to the states

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with strict federal guidelines attached That sounds more like categorical

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grant which come with many strings about how money could

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be spent Well no strings here Sorry puppeteer our block

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grants de funds distributed to neighborhoods well we may need

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a new park but block grants are distributed to states

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as a whole not individual neighborhoods We're blocked Grants e

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declared unconstitutional in mccullough v maryland well mccullough v maryland

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was an eighteen nineteen supreme court case that expanded the

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federal government's ability to pass laws even when the power

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wasn't explicitly stated in the constitution So we're going to

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make a ruling here he's out which means that block

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grants are be federal funds distributed to the states with

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few strings attached as a part of the new federalism

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movement block grants gave states lots of leeway over how

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money was spent in federally funded social programs The option

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b is the correct answer And all this time we

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thought blocks were just for little kids and stepping on 00:02:01.04 --> [endTime] in the dark

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