Michael Hiltzik: Experts agree Trump food box idea is absurd
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Mar 09, 2018
3 minutes
The Trump administration's idea of replacing up to half of all food stamp benefits with food boxes has been properly flayed by public assistance and nutritional specialists, members of Congress on both the Democratic and Republican sides of the aisle, and experts in food policy.
Now we have the opinion of the nation's economists, thanks to a regular survey by the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. According to results published Friday, the survey's panel of 43 economists (conservatives, progressives and
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