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The Food Stamp Program and Welfare Reform

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ID4030191
AuthorsBetsey A Kuhn (Acting Director, Food and Consumer Economics Division; Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C..), Betsey Kuhn (Agricultural Research Service), Pamela Allen Dunn (Visiting Scholar from the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, Maryland; Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C..), David Smallwood (Acting Chief of the Food Consumption, Nutrition, and Assistance Branch; Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C..), David M Smallwood (Agricultural Research Service), Kenneth Hanson (0009-0005-4243-3976, Agricultural Research Service), Kenneth R Hanson (0000-0001-5665-0852, Economist, Rural Economy Division; Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C..), Jim Blaylock (Acting Associate Director, Food and Consumer Economics Division; Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C..), Stephen Vogel (Economist, Rural Economy Division; Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C..), Stephen J Vogel (Agricultural Research Service)
Year1996
Volume10
Issue2
Pages189-198
Publication date1996-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965
PublisherAmerican Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1257/jep.10.2.189
OpenAlexW2059051480
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited3

Major changes have been proposed for the Food Stamp Program, including replacing the program with block grants to the states, cashing out the benefits, and reducing program funding from baseline levels. This paper will explore the impacts of food stamp reform on food spending, income support, welfare reform, agriculture, and the rest of the economy. A comprehensive set of scenarios is used to examine the potential economic consequences. The analysis shows that the effect of cashing out the Food Stamp Program can be as much as four times larger than the effects of program reduction alone

Agriculture · Business · Economics · Food Stamp Program · Food stamps · Geography · Market economy · Political science · Public economics · Welfare · Welfare reform · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Income, Poverty, and Inequality

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