Thanks to unemployment insurance, poverty declined last year (with Amy Goldstein and Elliott Morris)
Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer
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What Did We Know About Welfare?
Census found that if the stimulus payments hadn't existed, the official poverty rate would have been 12 point seven %. If you look at programm called snap, which used to be called food stamps, a food aid for poor people,. The case loads, the inrolment, went up substantially during the pandemic.
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