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- Title
The 47 Percent: U.S. Trends in Income Maintenance and Medicaid Spending, 1990-2011.
- Authors
MANNION, ELGIN; CHANG, GORDON C.
- Abstract
We analyze trends and variations in state-level expenditure growth for Medicaid, SSI, SNAP, and TANF. We explore three areas of interest: (1) How program structure impacts growth; (2) How programs responded to the 2008/2009 recession; and (3) How state preference for limited government, measured by Right-To-Work (RTW) status and political affiliation, impacts program expenditure growth. Findings show that program structure impacts expenditure growth: the state-matched programs like TANF and Medicaid grew slower from 1990-2011 than did open-ended federal programs like SNAP. OLS models found states with RTW policies and large Hispanic populations positively associated with higher income maintenance and Medicaid expenditure growth.
- Subjects
MEDICAID finance; INCOME maintenance programs; HEALTH programs; TEMPORARY Assistance for Needy Families (Program); UNITED States entitlement spending
- Publication
Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare, 2015, Vol 42, Issue 1, p25
- ISSN
0191-5096
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.15453/0191-5096.3886