 Residential and Regional Distribution of Benefits Under the Allowance for Basic Living Expenses (ABLE) Welfare Reform ProposalThomas A. Carlin, Gary Hendricks and Faye F. Christian No 307661, Agricultural Economic Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Abstract: A broad-based welfare reform program, proposed in 1974 by the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress, is compared to the current Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Food Stamp programs. The proposal is termed ABLE (Allowance for Basic Living Expenses). The study finds that the primary impact of ABLE would be to increase substantially the number of welfare-eligible families without changing the distribution of eligible families among regions or urban and rural areas. However, there would be a substantial reduction in benefits to eligible families in the Northeast and to a lesser extent in the North Central region and the West. Eligible southern families would gain substantially. Metropolitan areas would lose benefits under ABLE, but rural areas, except in the Northeast, would gain. Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Security and Poverty; Research Methods/Statistical Methods (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ags:uerser:307661 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Agricultural Economic Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service Contact information at EDIRC. |
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