Weighing the Costs of Welfare Removal November 18, 2015
By Ben Hinshaw, Institute for Social
Sciences — Welfare has long been the subject of heated
debate. On November 6, 2015, Manasi Deshpande continued that
debate at a seminar hosted by the Center for Poverty Research.
Focusing on Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Deshpande, an
assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago,
presented her recent paper “Does Welfare Inhibit Success? The
Long-Term Effects of Removing Low-Income Youth from Disability
Insurance.”
