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Who stands to lose if the final SNAP work requirements rule takes effect?

Click here to view the full interactive. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released a final rule that would limit eligibility for SNAP work requireme…
Health Care Social Insurance
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What are the factors that affect learning at your school?

Visit the interactive map, Chronic Absence: School and Community Factors. Reducing chronic absence and developing conditions for learning are instrumental…
Education
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Exploring the geography of prosperity

We construct a composite measure of several different indicators to determine a county’s economic vitality. Employing a statistical technique called “confirmat…
Employment & Wages Healthy Economy
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Share of children living in food-insecure households, by state (2018 update)

Explore state-level variation in child exposure to food insecurity over the past decade.
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Figure 7 applies the work requirement waiver policy in the House bill to the Great Recession, showing how long it took counties to reach 10 percent unemployment after the recession started.

"Proposed SNAP cuts would permanently undermine recession readiness and responsiveness"

Figure 2 provides illustrative examples for how a person who meets a work requirement threshold on an annual basis could accrue penalties on a month-by-month basis, either by missing the hours threshold (middle panel) or by losing their job and experiencing a period of unemployment (right panel).

"Work requirements penalize workers in volatile occupations"

Figure showing Unemployment, SNAP participation, and per capita SNAP benefits, 1980–December 2024

"A primer on SNAP work requirements"

Figure 1: Total work permit applications received, FY 2003 to January 2025

"Work permit applications suggest prior immigration is still pushing up labor supply—for now"

"Low-income workers experience—by far—the most earnings and work hours instability"

Figure 3: Aggregate non-farm metrics, from "The softening labor market is still growing"

"The softening labor market is still growing"

Figure 4: Effect on GDP growth in 2025 under two immigration scenarios, in percentage points, from "Immigration and the macroeconomy in the second Trump administration"

"Immigration and the macroeconomy in the second Trump administration"

Figure 5: Paid vacation and paid holidays, OECD nations, in working days, from "A federal guarantee for earned paid time off"

"A federal guarantee for earned paid time off"

Figure 1: Total tax returns filed by each entity type, from "Modernizing partnership taxation"

"Modernizing partnership taxation"

Figure 4: Change in US-born and foreign-born employment from the prior year, from "The strong labor market has boosted US-born employment"

"The strong labor market has boosted US-born employment"

Figure 1: Economy-wide carbon dioxide emissions, by climate policy scenario, from "Climate tax policy reform options in 2025"

"Climate tax policy reform options in 2025"

Figure 5: Cumulative increase in civilian noninstitutionalized population 16+ since 2010 under alternative measures of population growth, from "New immigration estimates help make sense of the pace of employment"

"New immigration estimates help make sense of the pace of employment"

Figure 6: Share of ABAWDs living below 200 percent of the federal poverty level, by employment and self-reported disability status, 2021, from "The safety net should work for working-age adults"

"The safety net should work for working-age adults"

Figure 6: Project flow through interconnection queue, 2021 to 2023, from "Eight facts about permitting and the clean energy transition"

"Eight facts about permitting and the clean energy transition"

Figure 11: US venture capital investment in education technology over time, from "Twelve facts about the economics of education"

"Twelve facts about the economics of education"

Figure 4: Contribution of changing within-group participation rates to net change in labor force participation, from "Prime-age women are still driving the labor market recovery"

"Prime-age women are still driving the labor market recovery"

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