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  American Journal of Agricultural EconomicsVolume 87 Issue 4, Pages 885 - 899 Published Online: 14 Oct 2005 © 2009 Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
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Farm Poverty and Safety Nets
The views expressed in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Craig Gundersen's work on this article was partially supported by the Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station. The authors wish to thank three anonymous referees and Chris Barrett for their excellent comments. In addition, the authors wish to thank the participants in seminars at the University of Kentucky and at the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Michael Merten provided excellent research assistance for this article. Copyright 2005 American Agricultural Economics Association KEYWORDS farm safety net programs • food stamps • Medicaid • poverty ABSTRACTFarm families with incomes below the poverty line are far less likely than wealthier farmers to receive farm support payments. Using data from the 1989–2004 Current Population Survey, we find that poor farm families are also not participating in other assistance programs. Controlling for other factors, eligible farm families have substantially lower participation rates in the Food Stamp Program and in Medicaid than eligible nonfarm families. Removing farm safety net program payments would increase the number of farmers eligible for these programs but, in the absence of behavioral changes, would only lead to small increases in the number of recipients. [Received December 2003; accepted January 2005.] | 
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