How SNAP's New Rules Make Eligible Families Go Hungry | The Professor Is In
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And that's why I'm going to sound like a good old 1980s Republican. We should actually try to make government a little easier to work with, not a little harder to work with.
I'm Megan Connors.
I'm Justin Wolfers. This is The Professor Is In. Think of this as office hours. Megan is here to ask me your questions.
Last week, you released a video about what you called the biggest economic story no one's talking about, and that's the recent cuts and administrative changes to SNAP. We've got some follow-up questions and comments to discuss today. And before we start with the questions, I just wanted to see if there was anything that kind of stood out to you in the comments section this week from our audience.
This is actually one of the most powerful weeks for me, reading comments. So we released a video that was about SNAP. Some people call it food assistance, food stamps. And it wasn't questions. It was personal testimony from people who the program had helped and people who were struggling to get by. There are folks who remember when they were kids. There was an elderly disabled couple who'd recently seen their food stamp assistance card. And story after story like that. And I've got to tell you, it's very rare to read the comments section on the internet these days and feel it here in the heart quite as much. So at one level, I just want to say thank you to people for sharing. At another level, I'm struck how invisible the policy debate is about these issues.
And I just want to say, I've seen you. And I know that Megan and I, we both worked hard on that video. And honestly, we're proud to put a little bit of light on what I really genuinely profoundly, this is not a political statement, it's an economic and it's a personal, it's an ethical statement, is one of the biggest untold stories. People who are getting assistance of $6 a day from the government, 4 million of them have had that assistance cut. Over the past year, I feel like as a society and economists, we haven't really noticed and we haven't told that story. This is our attempt to do a bit better job.
So I think a big takeaway from the episode is that the new system for administering the benefits has become a lot more strict. And because of that, in many states, it's caused many more people than were even intended to lose their benefits, people that should qualify for them even under the new rules.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–10:49
2
What personal stories and reactions emerged after the SNAP video release?
10:49–18:20
3
Which groups are most harmed when SNAP administrative burdens increase?
18:20–18:55
4
How did the new SNAP work-rule changes expand eligibility checks up to age 64?
18:55–22:58
5
Why do administrative barriers cause eligible people to lose SNAP benefits?
22:58–28:49
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