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The Great Recession and the Social Safety Net
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Ann Am Acad Pol Soc Sci
2013[Nov]; 650
(1
): 143-166
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The social safety net responded in significant and favorable ways during the
Great Recession. Aggregate per capita expenditures grew significantly, with
particularly strong growth in the SNAP, EITC, UI, and Medicaid programs.
Distributionally, the increase in transfers was widely shared across demographic
groups, including families with and without children, single-parent and
two-parent families. Transfers grew as well among families with more employed
members and with fewer employed members. However, the increase in transfer
amounts was not strongly progressive across income classes within the low-income
population, increasingly slightly more for those just below the poverty line and
those just above it, compared to those at the bottom of the income distribution.
This is mainly the result of the EITC program, which provides greater benefits to
those with higher family earnings. The expansions of SNAP and UI benefitted those
at the bottom of the income distribution to a greater extent.