Issues in Food Assistance-How Unemployment Affects the Food Stamp Program

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英文名称：

Issues in Food Assistance-How Unemployment Affects the Food Stamp Program

作者：

Kenneth Hanson; Craig Gundersen

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=46643

关键词：

Food Stamp Program;  unemployment rate;  food assistance;  recession; 

年份：

2002

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

6 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

This issues brief examines the link between unemployment and food stamps, with an emphasis on the potential magnitude of economic and policy changes on food stamp caseloads. We find that a 1-percentage-point increase in the unemployment rate leads to about 700,000 more food stamp recipients in the first year and in the longer run, this increase leads to 1.3 million more food stamp recipients.