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theimmaterialg
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Cat Mom, introvert, millennial. Probably listening to something from the 90s. Part of the 92%. ✅️ (she/her)
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Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:

- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital

SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program Martha J. Bailey, Hilary W. Hoynes, Maya Rossin-Slater & Reed Walker X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 26942 DOI 10.3386/w26942 Issue Date April 2020 We use novel, large-scale data on 43 million Americans from the 2000 Census and the 2001 to 2013 American Communities Survey linked to the Social Security Administration’s NUMIDENT to study how a policy-driven increase in economic resources for families affects children’s long-term outcomes. Using variation from the county-level roll-out of the Food Stamps program between 1961 and 1975, we find that children with access to greater economic resources before age five experience an increase of 6 percent of a standard deviation in their adult human capital, 3 percent of a standard deviation in their adult economic self-sufficiency, 8 percent of a standard deviation in the quality of their adult neighborhoods, 0.4 percentage-point increase in longevity, and a 0.5 percentage-point decrease in likelihood of being incarcerated. Based on these estimates, we conclude that Food Stamps’ transfer of resources to families is a highly cost-effective investment into young children, yielding a marginal value of public funds of approximately 56.
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Not to mention, he and Michelle were out here prior to the election trying to warn us and folks still didn't listen. Obama wasn't repected enough by certain folks to heed his warnings and now they want his labor?? Miss me with that bullshit. He did his 8 years. Contact actual elected officials.
October 14, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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The Data Rescue Project Tracker is tracking what data sources are being removed or altered.
The Data Rescue Tracker
The Data Rescue Tracker is a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you can use the tool to help re...
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October 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM