The total cost of the program in the 2012 fiscal year was $78.4 - TopicsExpress



          

The total cost of the program in the 2012 fiscal year was $78.4 billion, which has raised concerns among some lawmakers that costs are growing out of hand. But economists said that doesn’t take into account the toll it would take if the benefits were cut sharply, as some have proposed. “The vast majority of these benefits go to people who, you know, we don’t expect them to go out and work themselves,” said Diane Schanzenbach, an associate professor of human development and social policy at Northwestern University. food stamps prog.
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:26:11 +0000

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