The Changing Food Assistance Landscape: The Food Stamp Program in a Post-Welfare Reform Environment

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英文名称：

The Changing Food Assistance Landscape: The Food Stamp Program in a Post-Welfare Reform Environment

作者：

Craig Gundersen; Michael LeBlanc; Betsey Kuhn

工作单位：

USDA's Economic Research Service

来源地址：

https://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/pub-details/?pubid=40945

关键词：

food stamps;  transfer payments;  food consumption;  nutrition;  Temporary Assistance to Needy Families;  Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996; 

年份：

1999

出版地：

Washington, DC, USA

总页数：

31 pp

语种：

English

摘要：

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) dramatically transformed and continues to transform the food assistance landscape in the United States. The Act cut more funds from the Food Stamp Program than it did from any other program, through reductions in benefits per person and restrictions in eligibility. Despite these cuts, food stamps now have a more prominent role in the post-welfare reform social safety net because the largest cash-assistance entitlement program, Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), was replaced with the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program, a nonentitlement program. This leaves the Food Stamp Program as one of the only remaining entitlement programs available to almost all low-income households.