Quoted: The farm bill is thus being held up by arguments over relief the cost of which is likely to fall anyway and which most analysts consider effective. Timothy Smeeding, director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, says that the number below the poverty line is 16% lower than it would be without SNAP. ?No other programme for the non-elderly does such a great job preventing poverty,? he says, ?or alleviating its weight on those who remain poor.?
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