Sentence:  From its inception in 1920 with the passage of Public Law 236 , 66 th Congress , the purpose of the vocational rehabilitation program has been to assist the States , by means of <WSD>grants-in-aid</WSD> , to return disabled men and women to productive , gainful employment . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a grant from a central government to a local government