posted 12-04-2013 11:53 AM                  

That was just one of two main results reported in “Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net,” which Hoynes co-authored with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Douglas Almond. As stated in the paper’s abstract, access to food stamps for women leads to “increases in economic self-sufficiency (increases in educational attainment, earnings, and income, and decreases in welfare participation).” Hoynes and her colleagues took advantage of the fact that food stamp programs were established county-by-county over a period of years, creating a sort of “natural experiment” beginning half a century in the past.

For the complete article:
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/04/gop_debunked_on_food_stamps_everything_they_say_about_snap_is_wrong/

posted 12-04-2013 01:55 PM                  

http://lonelyconservative.com/2010/10/pelosi-food-stamps-and-unemploy ment-give-biggest-bang-for-our-buck/

....And even more "pearls of wisdom" from the dingbat as she explains that unemployment creates jobs!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q06u0n9UfW0&hd=1

posted 12-04-2013 04:07 PM                  

"Hoynes herself said, “This work indicates that there are important benefits of the safety net that to date have been ignored. They predict that a more generous safety net can reduce health disparities. More generally, the emerging evidence points to an important role for investments in early life — and those investments generate important returns in terms of better health and economic outcomes in adulthood.”

she fails to cite any numbers to support her conclusion. no quantitative studies...no numbers.....just assumptive conclusory statements.

in short, her "paper" is a joke...as it offers no evidence to support her assumption. her statement "more generally..." illustrates just how baseless her evidence is.

since when does feeding bears lead to a more self sufficient bear population a generation later?

dont get me wrong...i am not in favor of eliminating food assistance....but it should be limited in both time and scope...we...as americans...generally have no issue in helping the truly helpless......but as for me...i dont give a rats ass about helping the lazy and clueless...

posted 12-04-2013 04:17 PM                  

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Originally posted by reechee:
Hilary Hoynes is a University of California at Berkeley economist who wrote a particularly notable paper last year. Instead of increasing dependency, as conservative critics have repeatedly claimed, Hoyen’s paper showed that, for women at least, food stamp use during pregnancy and early childhood has exactly the opposite impact of what conservatives allege: It actually increases economic self-sufficiency when children grow up, in the next generation.

That was just one of two main results reported in “Long Run Impacts of Childhood Access to the Safety Net,” which Hoynes co-authored with Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach and Douglas Almond. As stated in the paper’s abstract, access to food stamps for women leads to “increases in economic self-sufficiency (increases in educational attainment, earnings, and income, and decreases in welfare participation).” Hoynes and her colleagues took advantage of the fact that food stamp programs were established county-by-county over a period of years, creating a sort of “natural experiment” beginning half a century in the past.

For the complete article:
http://www.salon.com/2013/12/04/gop_debunked_on_food_stamps_everything_the y_say_about_snap_is_wrong/

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posted 12-04-2013 06:23 PM                  

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Originally posted by attyedhall:
...we...as americans...generally have no issue in helping the truly helpless......but as for me...i dont give a rats ass about helping the lazy and clueless...

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