Policy Watch: The Food Stamp Program and Welfare Reform
探讨了食品券计划的改革方案，包括整笔拨款、现金化及削减资金，分析其对食品支出、收入支持、福利改革、农业及整体经济的影响，发现现金化的效果是单纯削减资金的四倍。
Major changes have been proposed for the Food Stamp Program, including replacing the program with block grants to the states, cashing out the benefits, and reducing program funding from baseline levels. This paper will explore the impacts of food stamp reform on food spending, income support, welfare reform, agriculture, and the rest of the economy. A comprehensive set of scenarios is used to examine the potential economic consequences. The analysis shows that the effect of cashing out the Food Stamp Program can be as much as four times larger than the effects of program reduction alone.