More than 40 million low-income Americans benefit from the Department of Agriculture’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which replaced “food stamps” in 2008. SNAP’s eligibility criteria vary by state, but recipients generally must be at or below 130 percent of the federal poverty line, which, in most states, ranges from $15,650 for a one-person household […]
Author Archives: William F. Shughart II
William F. Shughart II, research director of the Independent Institute in Oakland, Calif., is J. Fish Smith Professor in Public Choice at Utah State University’s Huntsman School of Business. He wrote this for InsideSources.com.
