Tag: welfare programs
This proposal would undermine support for the program and delay a real solution. My clever friend, and occasional co-author, Andrew Biggs is up to mischief again. He and his lawyer co-author Kristin Shapiro argue that we don’t really need to worry about exhausting the Social Security trust fund because the worst effects could be prevented…
Abstract The number of participants in the Supplemental Security Income Program (SSI) and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) skyrocketed during the Great Recession. But more surprising is that caseloads for both programs increased during the preceding expansion and during the nascent recovery period after the Great Recession. Using both administrative program data and t…
