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Welfare Digest | Welfare Reform's Success Holds Up 30 Years Later

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (703+ words) The Debt Dispatch Welfare Digest | Welfare Reform's Success Holds Up 30 Years Later Links & Benefits Breakdowns Here are this week’s reading links and benefits breakdowns: Welfare Reform's Success Holds Up 30 Years Later. The positive effects of the 1996 welfare reforms on work…...

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In the Press: The $40 Trillion Bill for Young Americans, Falling SNAP enrollment, and Lack of Transparency in Rural Health

2+ week, 20+ hour ago   (473+ words) Free the Facts asked ten experts across the ideological spectrum what the $40 trillion national debt means for the next generation. Boccia’s contribution: In Yahoo News, Jasmine Andersson examines which states have shed the most SNAP recipients — enrollment is down more…...

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Don’t Mourn the Falling SNAP Rolls

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (396+ words) This article first appeared in InsideSources on August 19, 2026. Read it here. When Congress passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) last summer, more than 42 million, or one in eight, Americans were on the food stamp program. Since then, that…...

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In the Press: SNAP Accountability, the Social Security Reform Debate, and DOGE’s Failed Savings

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (438+ words) In The Unseen and the Unsaid, Jack Salmon argues that the Farm Bill pairs a $1.4 trillion price tag with expanded subsidies and delayed SNAP accountability. He cites Boccia on the risk of backsliding: As the Cato Institute’s Romina Boccia puts…...