The bill would establish a pilot program allowing the Secretary of Health and Human Services, acting through the Assistant Secretary for Children and Families, to permit up to five States to consolidate specified antipoverty-program funding into Upward Mobility Grants. Approved pilot projects would last five years, with quarterly payments equal to 25 percent of each annual grant, and States could request waivers of certain eligibility, program-design, and funding rules, subject to exclusions including civil rights, health and safety, labor standards, environmental protection, and specified benefit restrictions.

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