Paul Krugman: Conservatives are deeply committed to the view that the size of government has exploded under President Obama but face the awkward fact that public employment is down sharply, while SNAP really has grown a lot. Conservatives look at this and see runaway, explosive growth in a government program. The rest of us see a safety-net program doing exactly what it’s supposed to do: help more people in a time of widespread economic distress.. Multiple careful economic studies have shown that the economic downturn explains the great bulk of the increase in food stamp use. And food stamps have [been] keeping millions of Americans out of poverty. SNAP is one program that has been expanding, and as such it has indirectly helped save hundreds of thousands of jobs.
Posted on: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:44:49 +0000
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