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May 13, 2025
Common-Sense SNAP Reforms Included in House Agriculture Reconciliation Proposal
The House Agriculture committee released budget reconciliation text this week and scheduled a full committee markup. As part of the budget framework passed earlier this year, the Agriculture Committee was tasked with…
May 2, 2025
SNAP is About Nutrition: My Response to Zycher
…abundance and will strengthen the Nation’s agricultural economy, as well as result in more orderly marketing and distribution of foods. To alleviate such hunger and malnutrition, a supplemental nutrition assistance…
April 24, 2025
In Opposing Last Month’s Continuing Resolution, Nearly All Democrats Voted to Shut Down Welfare Checks, Too
…the legislation. It also marked a rare example of most Democrats’ voting to shut down funding for welfare benefits, which they otherwise regularly support extending at levels set in the…
April 8, 2025
Public Support of Health Insurance Enrollment
…highest payoff reform would lower prices for high-volume medical services through a structured market and incentives for patients to migrate toward the most efficient providers. This reform would lower premiums in…
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…mark was followed by eighteen years of declining debt-to-GDP levels. But today, we are facing ever-rising debt. By 2055, our national debt is projected to reach 154 percent of GDP,…
February 24, 2025
What Do You Call an Automatic Stabilizer that Doesn’t Shrink When Conditions Improve? The Biden Food Stamps Blowout
…CBO’s phrase, seemingly regardless of the direction of the nation’s job market. Figure 1. Source: USDA, BLS, NBER Figure 2 also compares the US unemployment rate with the SNAP caseload,…
February 14, 2025
Poverty During the Pandemic and the Role of Government Transfers
…and money market accounts, certificates of deposit (CDs), directly-held stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. The data are from the CE. Asset information is collected only in the fifth interview of…
January 24, 2025
The Targeting of Place-Based Policies: The New Markets Tax Credit Versus Opportunity Zones
…New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC), where government-approved entities select investments, and Opportunity Zones (OZs), where private investors choose projects. Despite underlying design differences, both target census tracts with relatively high…
January 21, 2025
President Trump’s USDA Should Fix Food Stamp Work Requirement Waivers
…the area had an unemployment rate greater than 120 percent of the national average and greater than six percent. Additionally, the regulation only permitted waivers for individual Labor Market Areas…
December 30, 2024
Coverage, Counter-cyclicality and Targeting of Work Requirement Waivers in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
…the work requirement for areas that meet conditions reflective of a weak labor market. We construct a dataset with the waiver status of each United States county for every month…