Simon Blog: Dean’s Corner
SNAP work requirements: Did research lead to the homeless exemption?
SNAP work requirements: Did research lead to the homeless exemption?
July 13, 2023
In this special edition of the Dean’s Corner, we turn the spotlight on influential research done by Simon Economics Professor Elena Prager and a team of economists from MIT, Harvard, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Maryland.
Their study may have influenced the final version of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.
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