The Effects of Minimum Wages on SNAP Enrollments and Expenditures

by Gary Kopycinski on March 6, 2014

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Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–March 5, 2014. How do minimum wage policy increases affect enrollments and expenditures on means-tested public assistance programs? In this report we address this question for the case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program.