Content by Kelsey Pukelis
Work requirements for food aid don’t get more people into the labor force
States spend less on food programs with work requirements, but it’s at the expense of the most vulnerable
Kelsey Pukelis is a Ph.D. student in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She is an empirical public economist, with secondary fields in labor and behavioral economics with particular interested in the relationship between the social safety net and work. Her current research focuses on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): the largest nutrition assistance program in the U.S.