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May 28, 2025
An Evaluation of Approaches to Cut and Reform SNAP
…reducing the maximum SNAP benefit. Currently for a family of three, the maximum monthly benefit is $768 per month. One option is to reduce that amount, and actually in 2021…
May 13, 2025
Common-Sense SNAP Reforms Included in House Agriculture Reconciliation Proposal
…increasing benefit levels for inflation. The Thrifty Food Plan sets maximum SNAP benefit levels, intending to represent the cost of a “nutritious, practical, cost-effective diet” for home consumption. President Biden’s…
February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Robert Manduca, Jimmy Narang, “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940.” Replication files available at https://opportunityinsights.org/data/?geographic_level=0&topic=0&paper_id=546#resource-listing. These results were the basis for…
January 30, 2025
Eliminating the Benefit Cliff and Achieving Savings for Taxpayers: A Reform Proposal for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
…SNAP benefit structure—the maximum benefit levels, the tapering point, the benefit reduction rate, and the exit point—to eliminate benefit cliffs and improve employment outcomes for participants while reducing program costs….
January 21, 2025
President Trump’s USDA Should Fix Food Stamp Work Requirement Waivers
…of maximizing their waiver coverage. Therefore, even if one area (county, city, town, etc.) is not eligible for a waiver according to any of the above criteria, the area may…
January 7, 2025
Tax Policy Should Prioritize Shoring Up the Family
…one child each would each receive a maximum of around $4,300 in 2025, but if they married they would both qualify for a maximum of over $7,100 (using the schedule for two…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…likely reduced men’s wages. With more men single and childless, and for longer, they face less pressure to be breadwinners. That may affect the weight they put on maximizing their…
August 24, 2024
Harris’s Child Tax Credit Proposal Could Backfire, Perpetuating Poverty
…increased dollar amounts have attracted most of the attention, a key motivation for these proposals is to ensure working families with low incomes receive the maximum credit. Working families who…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The evidence is ambiguous as to whether America’s absolute mobility looks worse than or the same as that of Denmark and the…
May 14, 2024
Understanding Trends in Worker Pay over the Past 50 years
…declined. Along with reduced fertility and greater economic opportunities for women, the decline in marriage led men to prioritize values other than maximizing their pay. The painful transition for men…