Food stamp work rules don't increase employment, researchers say

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8. Work requirements are an insidious reframing of the communitarian values such public investment represents.

Work requirement not only fail to boost employment and serve as a barrier to benefits for those qualified, they are an insidious reframing of the communitarian values that public investments in people represent.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/congress-is-debating-stricter-snap-and-medicaid-work-requirements-but-research-shows-they-dont-work

From a policy perspective, work requirements encourage a punitive view of welfare—framing it as a liability rather than an integral investment in economic support for low-income communities. This piece examines recent economic research studying the efficacy of work requirements for SNAP and Medicaid on labor market outcomes and program participation rates.

More of the harms these requirements inflict in my post below:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143653593#post6