In 1996, a federal welfare reform prohibited convicted drug felons from ever obtaining food stamps.

The increase is driven by financially motivated crimes, suggesting that ex-convicts returned to crime to make up for the lost transfer income.

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257%2Fpol.20170490

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R.I.P. Michael Ruppert. Flooded drugs into their community. Killed or assassinated their role models. Broke up their families through backhanded policies. Subjected to stacked odds from the very beginning and a private prison industry profiting off their backs.

 

 

 

h/t Orangutan

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