In particular, providing transfers for low-income workers rather than the non-worker can be optimal if the labor supply responses are concentrated along the extensive margin, whereas providing the highest benefits to non-workers with a positive benefit reduction rate can be optimal if the intensive...
• SNAP is now a catchall for individuals and families who receive no or lower benefits from other welfare programs, largely because the eligibility criteria in SNAP are relatively more relaxed. As a result, the net effect has been to increase SNAP enrollment. For example, in the welfare re...
USDA-FNS is responsible for administering the retailer side of SNAP and for pursuing retailer fraud; while states are responsible for administering the recipient side of SNAP (with federal oversight) and for pursuing recipient fraud.8"Trafficking" usually means the direct exchange of SNAP benefits (...
for our visitors, and for our neighbors. The histories of the earliest back-to-land markets make it clear it was never about adding back the old-style public markets. Those had often stopped being useful for their local farmers long before, and the...