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100			_aChange, Yu-Ling and Romich, Jennifer L. _942000
245			_aThe U.S. safety net since the great recession: Trends and reforms, 2007–2017
260			_aSocial Work: A Journal of the National Association of Social Workers
300			_a66(1), Jan, 2021: p.29-38
520			_aThe negative impacts of the Great Recession (GR) (2007 to 2009) on the lives of families with low incomes warrant social work concerns about how well antipoverty policy responded to meet economic needs over this period and since. Given America’s long-standing tension between welfare state adequacy and market-oriented policies, how well did the safety net respond to the economic downturn? Did GR-era changes reverse or accelerate trends in public assistance? This article examines key policy changes and indicators of caseloads, inclusion, and generosity for three antipoverty policies: the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly Food Stamp Program), and the Earned Income Tax Credit from 2007 to 2017. Authors’ analysis shows a continuation of market-oriented U.S. antipoverty policy. Authors argue that the reemphasis of conditioning benefits on employment undermines the countercyclical feature of the social safety net and perpetuates the inequitable redistribution of public resources between those inside and outside of the labor market. Authors discuss social workers’ role in strengthening antipoverty policies to improve the economic well-being of people with low incomes and the economic justice of the social safety net.- Reproduced
650			_aEamed income tax credit, Great recession, Poverty, Supplemental nutntion, Assistance program, Temporary assistance for needy families. _939102
773			_aSocial Work: A Journal of the National Association of Social Workers
906			_aRECESSION
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