This report traces the impacts of USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit outlays on the rural and urban economies during the post-recession years 2009–14. The macroeconomic stimulus effects of the expenditures of SNAP benefit outlays generated larger economic impacts...

Over the last few years, the world economy has gone through a severe period of economic downturn, the worst since the end of WWII. Although the crisis has been widely covered on the media, less common knowledge is the fact that the crisis has engendered responses in the economic systems, in the...

The Great Recession negatively impacted all US states, but there was substantial heterogeneity across the country. This study reveals some of this heterogeneity by examining what happened to the labor market in Kentucky and its seven border states, then in Kentucky's metropolitan statistical...