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The Role of Multiple Benefits in Maintaining the Social Safety Net: The Case of Food Stamps

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Panel data from the 1979 Income Survey Development Program are used to describe the adequacy of the social welfare safety net and the population it protected prior to the 1981 round of welfare cuts. The analysis centers on food stamp recipients and shows that while some food stamp recipients had incomes exceeding 130 percent of the poverty line, many others remained below the poverty line even with food stamps and other program benefits. The paper closes by discussing the implications of the analysis for benefit adequacy and the interaction with state-provided welfare benefits.

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  • Maurice MacDonald, 1985. "The Role of Multiple Benefits in Maintaining the Social Safety Net: The Case of Food Stamps," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 20(3), pages 421-436.
    • Handle: RePEc:uwp:jhriss:v:20:y:1985:i:3:p:421-436
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    1. Dickert, Stacy & Houser, Scott & Scholz, John Karl, 1994. "Taxes and the Poor: A Microsimulation Study of Implicit and Explicit Taxes," National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal, vol. 47(3), pages 621-638, September.
    2. Ranney, Christine K., 2002. "Rural, Suburban and Urban Single Mothers' AFDC and FSP Participation and Labor Supply: Lessons for Welfare Reform," Research Bulletins 122637, Cornell University, Department of Applied Economics and Management.
    3. Slack, Kristen S. & Kim, Bomi & Yang, Mi-Youn & Berger, Lawrence M., 2014. "The economic safety net for low-income families with children," Children and Youth Services Review, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 213-219.
    4. Carlton Davis, 1994. "Domestic food programs, hunger and undernutrition in rural America: How secure is the safety net?," The Review of Black Political Economy, Springer;National Economic Association, vol. 22(4), pages 179-202, June.

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