Current：Home > NewsDo work requirements help SNAP people out of government aid? -MarketPoint
Do work requirements help SNAP people out of government aid?
View
Date：2025-04-17 14:41:14
Many Americans getting government aid for food under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, will soon need to prove that they are working in order to keep their benefits. Advocates for work requirements say government aid creates dependency, while critics say those rules harm the most vulnerable recipients.
New economic research puts these two competing narratives to the test by studying the impact of work requirements on SNAP participants' employment and wages.
Music by Drop Electric. Find us: Twitter / Facebook / Newsletter.
Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, PocketCasts and NPR One.
For sponsor-free episodes of The Indicator from Planet Money, subscribe to Planet Money+ via Apple Podcasts or at plus.npr.org.
veryGood！ (682)
Related
- Nearly 400 USAID contract employees laid off in wake of Trump's 'stop work' order
- Average rate on a 30-year mortgage in the US rises to the highest level in 8 weeks
- Lashana Lynch Is Pregnant, Expecting First Baby With Zackary Momoh
- Officials searching for man after puppies left abandoned in milk crate outside PA police station
- Where will Elmo go? HBO moves away from 'Sesame Street'
- Here’s What Halloweentown’s Kimberly J. Brown Wants to See in a 5th Installment
- Devastated Harry Styles Speaks Out on Liam Payne’s Death
- How Liam Payne's Love for Son Bear Inspired Him to Be Superhero for Kids With Cancer in Final Weeks
- McKinsey to pay $650 million after advising opioid maker on how to 'turbocharge' sales
- What to know about red tide after Florida’s back-to-back hurricanes
Ranking
- What do we know about the mysterious drones reported flying over New Jersey?
- Review of Maine police response to mass shooting yields more recommendations
- Uphill battles that put abortion rights on ballots are unlikely to end even if the measures pass
- New Hampshire’s port director and his wife, a judge, are both facing criminal charges
- The Best Stocking Stuffers Under $25
- 'Dune: Prophecy' cast, producers reveal how the HBO series expands on the films
- The Biden administration has now canceled loans for more than 1 million public workers
- Onetime art adviser to actor Leonardo DiCaprio, among others, pleads guilty in $6.5 million fraud
Recommendation
Spooky or not? Some Choa Chu Kang residents say community garden resembles cemetery
US presidential election looms over IMF and World Bank annual meetings
Video of Phoenix police pummeling a deaf Black man with cerebral palsy sparks outcry
Devastated Harry Styles Speaks Out on Liam Payne’s Death
'Kraven the Hunter' spoilers! Let's dig into that twisty ending, supervillain reveal
Who Is Kate Cassidy? Everything to Know About Liam Payne's Girlfriend
One Direction members share joint statement on Liam Payne death: 'Completely devastated'
'Dune: Prophecy' cast, producers reveal how the HBO series expands on the films