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After the 2002 Farm Bill, conservative policy reform ideas such as block granting the food stamp and SNAP program continued to emerge as did new ideas including, most prominently, that of drug testing recipients. However, the 2014 Farm Bill contained only minor changes and SNAP enrollment expanded greatly in response to the Great Recession that began in December 2007. This chapter chronicles conservative policy ideas for reforming the SNAP program, including attempts to remove the program from the Farm Bill. Despite obstacles and opposition, the place of SNAP in the Farm Bill has so far allowed the program to continue without major changes.
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Kenneth Finegold, Laura Wherry and Stephanie Schardin. “Block Grants: Details of the Bush Proposal.” (Washington, DC: Urban Institute, April 2004).
Robert Rector and Karen Bradley. “Reforming the Food Stamp Program.” (Washington, DC: Heritage Foundation, July 25, 2012), 2.
Ed Bolen, Dorothy Rosenbaum and Stacy Dean. “Summary of the 2014 Farm Bill Nutrition Title: Includes Bipartisan Improvements to SNAP While Excluding Harsh House Provisions.” (Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, January 28, 2014): 2.
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Gritter, M. (2015). A New Right-Wing Consensus? Attacks on SNAP and the Preservation of the Program. In: The Policy and Politics of Food Stamps and SNAP. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520920_4
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