Ryan Budget Would Undermine Safety Net’s Work Supports
End Notes
[1] House Budget Committee, “The Path to Prosperity – A Responsible, Balanced Budget,” March 2013, p. 30, http://budget.house.gov/uploadedfiles/fy14budget.pdf.
[2] Arloc Sherman, Sharon Parrott, Indivar Dutta-Gupta, and Jimmy Charite, “Deficit Reduction Should Not Increase Poverty and Hardship,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 11, 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3918.
[3] Jeffrey Grogger, “The Effects of Time Limits, the EITC, and Other Policy Changes on Welfare Use, Work, and Income among Female-Head Families,” Review of Economics and Statistics, May 2003.
[4] Dottie Rosenbaum, “The Relationship Between SNAP and Work Among Low-Income Households,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, January 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3894.
[5] Yonatan Ben-Shalom, Robert A. Moffitt, and John Karl Scholz “An Assessment of the Effectiveness of Anti-Poverty Programs in the United States,” NBER Working Paper 17042, May 2011.
[6] Richard Kogan and Kelsey Merrick, “Chairman Ryan Gets 66 Percent of His Budget Cuts from Programs for People With Low or Moderate Incomes,” March 15, 2013, https://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3925.
[7] The budget includes about $230 billion in unspecified cuts in the “Income Security” budget function (also known as function 600) in mandatory programs. These are the cuts in addition to the large cuts the Ryan budget identifies in SNAP and civil service pensions and two small cuts the budget documents in other programs as “illustrative examples” of where savings can be found. The EITC and CTC are among the larger remaining mandatory programs from which this $230 billion would have to be cut.
[8] Edwin Park, “Ryan Budget Again Includes a Medicaid Block Grant That Would Add Millions to the Ranks of the Uninsured and Underinsured,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Off the Charts blog, March 15, 2013, http://www.offthechartsblog.org/ryan-budget-again-includes-a-medicaid-block-grant-that-would-add-millions-to-the-ranks-of-uninsured-and-underinsured/.
[9] See John Holahan, et. al., “National and State-by-State Impact of the 2012 House Republican Budget Plan for Medicaid,” Kaiser Family Foundation and the Urban Institute, October 2012, http://www.kff.org/medicaid/upload/8185-02.pdf, and Congressional Budget Office, “Effects of the Affordable Care Act on Health Insurance Coverage,” February 2013, http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43900.
[10] Stacy Dean, “Ryan Budget’s SNAP Cuts Even Deeper Than We Thought,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Off the Charts blog, March 19, 2013, http://www.offthechartsblog.org/ryan-budgets-snap-cuts-even-deeper-than-we-thought/.
[11] Joel Friedman, “Ryan Budget Hits Non-Defense Discretionary Funding Far More Than Sequestration Does,” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Off the Charts blog, March 14, 2013, http://www.offthechartsblog.org/ryan-budget-hits-non-defense-discretionary-funding-far-more-than-sequestration-does/.