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Title: Reforming Food Stamps to Promote Work and Reduce Poverty and Dependence
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Rector, Robert |
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Reforming Food Stamps to Promote Work and Reduce Poverty and Dependence Washington, DC, Testimony on Welfare and Welfare Spending and Poverty and Inequality, The Heritage Foundation, June 27, 2001. Also: http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/Test062701.cfm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: The Heritage Foundation Keyword(s): Employment; Food Stamps (see Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program); Welfare; Work Ethic Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This testimony argues against the validity of status quo Food Stamp programs. Rector uses NLSY79 data to show that such programs promote long-term dependence and negatively impact work ethic. Specifically, he finds that only 1.4 percent of Food Stamp spending went to households which received aid for 6 months or less, less than 10 percent of Food Stamp expenditures went to individuals who received aid for two years or less, and over 90 percent of Food Stamp aid went to households that received aid for more than two years. |
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Rector, Robert. "Reforming Food Stamps to Promote Work and Reduce Poverty and Dependence." Washington, DC, Testimony on Welfare and Welfare Spending and Poverty and Inequality, The Heritage Foundation, June 27, 2001. |