The Census' official definition of money income excludes food stamps and the EITC, for example, while CBO includes it. Between 1979 and 2011, gross median household income, adjusted for inflation, rose from $59,400 to $75,200, or 26.5%. This compares with the Census' growth of 10%. How...
Our current welfare system relies on the transfer programs that we have in place, such as food stamps (now known as SNAP), unemployment benefits, and now even cell phones. However, we must ask whether these programs actually generate a fair chance at opportunity. Again, a fair chance at ...
The eviction cycle.Imagine that you are either in a low-paying job or receive government benefits, but that income isn’t enough to pay for rent, utilities, and food. So in any given month, one of those bills doesn’t get paid. That means eventually you get behind on rent, and eventu...
aA similar chart could be drawn for the eighth month, the ninth month and so on. The point is that married and unmarried women enter unemployment at about the same rate, but unmarried women leave it more slowly.[translate] aPart of the difference in labor-market experiences has to do with...
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An unduplicated count of welfare beneficiaries is not available. Enrollment in TANF and food stamps remained far below 1994/1995 peak levels during 2000-2002, but Medicaid enrollment set a new record high. Average 2002 monthly numbers: Food stamps, 20.2 million; TANF, 5.1 million; and Supplementa...
food stamps were a response to handing out free food from the backs of trucks, literal “handouts”. People who received these handouts weren’t going to stores, and that meant other stuff also wasn’t getting bought. Food stamps were seen as a more efficient way of getting food to peop...
Less healthy diets are common in high income countries, although proportionally higher in those of low socio-economic status. Food subsidy programs are one strategy to promote healthy nutrition and to reduce socio-economic inequalities in health. This review summarises the evidence for the health and...
Even more resources are transferred through in-kind (non-cash) programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, food stamps (now SNAP, the Supplemental Nutrition Food Program), housing assistance and Pell grants, in which 1 In addition to making after-tax incomes less unequal, economists have noted ...