| The Effects of Potential Cuts in SNAP Spending on Households With Different Amounts of Income Contributor(s): Congressional Budget Office (Author) |
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ISBN: 1511570156 ISBN-13: 9781511570152 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $12.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2015 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Economics - General |
| Physical Information: 0.06" H x 8.5" W x 11.02" (0.20 lbs) 28 pages |
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| Publisher Description: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamps) provides benefits to low-income households to help them buy food. Total federal expenditures on SNAP amounted to $76 billion in fiscal year 2014. In an average month that year, 47 million people (or one in seven U.S. residents) received SNAP benefits. Some policymakers have expressed a desire to scale back the program significantly to reduce federal spending. In this report, the Congressional Budget Office examines several options for doing so and their effects on the bene-fits that would be received by households with different amounts of income. |
