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Since the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996, Food Stamps and SNAP have been the final string of a frayed and vulnerable safety net. Throughout this book, three factors have been examined that allowed Food Stamps and SNAP to continue without major reforms: the place of the program within the Farm Bill, its place as a safety net of last resort and attempts to characterize the program as benefiting the deserving poor. These factors have prevented conservative reforms such as conversion of the program to a block grant or nation-wide drug testing from occurring. This battle will continue but it is also possible to think of SNAP as an integral part of debates regarding the safety net and the emergence of food as a policy area in the popular imagination.
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Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes. “The State of the Social Safety Net in the Post-Welfare Reform Era.” Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Fall 2010).
Dan Charles. “How ‘Double Bucks’ for Food Stamps Conquered Capitol Hill.” (www.npr.org). November 10, 2014.
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Gritter, M. (2015). Conclusion. In: The Policy and Politics of Food Stamps and SNAP. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520920_5
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