States milking the Federal Government on these assistance programs are going to be penalized.
#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds
You think the states are getting penalized?
The States, along with the SNAP beneficiaries, are simply pass-throughs for Federal dollars to end up in private business nightly deposits.
This is yet another move that reduces GDP and harms the economy. That's a price Republicans are happy to pay, if if harms the poor.
As with every policy you support, you support it because it kicks people when they are down!
SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will significantly impair recession response
www.brookings.edu
"USDA has estimated that each additional dollar spent on SNAP benefits causes total economic activity to increase by $1.40 to $1.50 in a general economic downturn."
"A recent study found that when a state receives federal assistance that allows it to avoid $1.00 in program cuts, at least $1.70 in additional economic activity results."
"Rigorous research evidence finds that SNAP work requirements do not increase employment, as we describe more fully in this primer and these proposals. Further, expanded work requirements will diminish SNAP as an automatic stabilizer and will penalize workers during recessions, as discussed below."
"even among low-wage service workers without minor children in the household who meet work requirements on an annual basis (i.e., who work an average of more than 80 hours per month over the year as a whole), 42 percent have at least one month with less than 80 work hours, and 25 percent have at least one month of unemployment. This was the case in 2022, when the economy was not in a recession and labor market conditions were improving."
"To be clear, SNAP's 10 percent unemployment rule under OBBBA stands out as an exceptionally high standard. At the national level, 10 percent unemployment was reached in only one month during the entire Great Recession. About 40 percent of the population lived in a county where county-level unemployment never reached 10 percent for even a single month during the Great Recession, the deepest and longest recession in recent decades."
