{"id":1505,"date":"2011-08-26T15:31:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T15:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.multiplier-effect.org\/?p=1505"},"modified":"2011-08-29T22:41:03","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T22:41:03","slug":"automatic-stabilizer-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/automatic-stabilizer-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"Automatic Stabilizer Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>If you believe the US political system is incapable of handling counter-cyclical policy and that we need to rely on automatic stabilizers, this CBPP graph is depressing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/files\/2011\/08\/CBBP_8-22-11fa-f1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1506\" title=\"CBBP_8-22-11fa-f1\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/files\/2011\/08\/CBBP_8-22-11fa-f1-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/files\/2011\/08\/CBBP_8-22-11fa-f1-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/files\/2011\/08\/CBBP_8-22-11fa-f1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In other words, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (the result of the 1996 \u201cwelfare reform\u201d), for whatever its other merits might be, has not been particularly sensitive to increases in poverty.\u00a0 As the number of needy families grew during the recession, the TANF rolls barely budged.\u00a0 More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.offthechartsblog.org\/tanf-at-15-part-i-how-well-does-it-provide-income-support-for-poor-families\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you believe the US political system is incapable of handling counter-cyclical policy and that we need to rely on automatic stabilizers, this CBPP graph is depressing: In other words, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (the result of the 1996 \u201cwelfare reform\u201d), for whatever its other merits might be, has not been particularly sensitive to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economic-policy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1511,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1505\/revisions\/1511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bard.edu\/multiplier-effect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}