Food Stamp Recipients Increasingly Are The Working Poor
Specific to the SNAP program, Travis Smith, an applied economics professor at the University of Georgia, noted that for every dollar a SNAP recipient’s wage increase, their benefit decreases just by roughly 30 cents, so there remains an incentive to work additional hours or find better-paying work.
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