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Betsey Kuhn - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Changing Food Assistance Landscape: The Food Stamp Program in a
1999Co-Authors: Craig Gundersen, Michael Leblanc, Betsey KuhnAbstract: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.
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The Changing Food Assistance Landscape: The Food Stamp Program in a Post-Welfare Reform Environment
Agricultural Economics Reports, 1999Co-Authors: Craig Gundersen, Michael Leblanc, Betsey KuhnAbstract: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.
Craig Gundersen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Changing Food Assistance Landscape: The Food Stamp Program in a
1999Co-Authors: Craig Gundersen, Michael Leblanc, Betsey KuhnAbstract: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.
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The Changing Food Assistance Landscape: The Food Stamp Program in a Post-Welfare Reform Environment
Agricultural Economics Reports, 1999Co-Authors: Craig Gundersen, Michael Leblanc, Betsey KuhnAbstract: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.
Michael Leblanc - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Changing Food Assistance Landscape: The Food Stamp Program in a
1999Co-Authors: Craig Gundersen, Michael Leblanc, Betsey KuhnAbstract: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.
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The Changing Food Assistance Landscape: The Food Stamp Program in a Post-Welfare Reform Environment
Agricultural Economics Reports, 1999Co-Authors: Craig Gundersen, Michael Leblanc, Betsey KuhnAbstract: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.
Jean P. Hearne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Prescription Drug Coverage Under Medicaid
2004Co-Authors: Jean P. HearneAbstract:Medicaid is a joint federal-state Entitlement Program that pays for medical services on behalf of certain groups of low-income persons. It is the third largest social Program in the federal budget, exceeded only by Social Security and Medicare and is typically the second largest spending item for states. This report discusses prescription drug policies under the Program.
Fiona M. Scott Morton - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Providing Prescription Drug Coverage to the Elderly : America's Experiment with Medicare Part D
Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008Co-Authors: Mark Duggan, Patrick Healy, Fiona M. Scott MortonAbstract:The federal government's Medicare Program did not provide general prescription drug coverage for the first 40 years of its existence. Thus, more than 30 percent of the 44 million elderly and disabled beneficiaries of the Program lacked insurance coverage for prescribed medications. The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 established a voluntary outpatient prescription drug benefit known as Medicare Part D. This Program took effect in 2006 and represents the largest expansion of an Entitlement Program since the start of Medicare itself. The design of Part D is of particular interest to economists for at least three reasons: First, the Program has the potential to affect significantly both the health and the economic well-being of the more than 44 million individuals currently enrolled in Medicare. Second, Part D has substantially increased government spending on health care despite the projections that such spending was already on an unsustainable path. Third, Part D represents an ambitious attempt to use market mechanisms in the delivery of a large-scale Entitlement Program. Part D has been controversial. In this paper, we aim to shed light on the various issues raised by the Part D Program, including the incentives inherent in the competition among plans, the forces that affect drug prices, and the sustainability of Part D in the face of adverse selection and moral hazard. We conclude that Part D has succeeded in a number of important ways, however, substantial room for improvement remains.