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These included Social Security, Medicaid, Food Stamps, and federal education programs. [34] Though Reagan protected entitlement programs, such as Social Security and Medicare, [35] in one of the most widely criticized [36] actions of the administration, the administration attempted to purge tens of thousands of allegedly disabled people from ...
The Immigration Reform and Control Act did not address the status of children of undocumented migrants who were eligible for the amnesty program. In 1987, Reagan used his executive authority to legalize the status of minor children of parents granted amnesty under the immigration overhaul, [7] announcing a blanket deferral of deportation for ...
The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980 (MHSA) was legislation signed by American President Jimmy Carter which provided grants to community mental health centers. In 1981 President Ronald Reagan, who had made major efforts during his governorship to reduce funding and enlistment for California mental institutions, pushed a political effort through the Democratically controlled House of ...
The Social Security Disability Benefits Reform Act of 1984 was signed into law by then-U.S. President Ronald Reagan on 9 October 1984. Its purpose was to ensure more accurate, consistent and uniform disability determination decisions under the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program, and to ensure that applicants were treated fairly and humanely. [1]
Reagan was arguably ahead of the curve in his view of immigrants. As recently as the early 2000s there was substantial disagreement in the field of economics about the impact of immigration.
A conservative president jump-started what became a remarkable success story unfolded for undocumented children in the United States.
Listed below are executive orders numbered 12287-12667, signed by United States President Ronald Reagan (1981–1989). He signed 381 executive orders. [9] His executive orders are also listed on Wikisource, along with his presidential proclamations, national security decision directives and national security study directives. Signature of ...
Reagan says that "Government has invaded the free precincts of private citizens," stating that the U.S. government owns "1/5 of the total industrial capacity of the United States." Reagan says "One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as ...