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Kelsey Pukelis

@kpukelis.bsky.social

Researcher at California Department of Social Services. PhD in Public Policy from Harvard. Passionate about SNAP, food assistance, and the safety net. All views are my own. kelseypukelis.com

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Kelsey Pukelis @kpukelis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

An opportunity to join our fantastic research team at the California Department of Social Services!

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Lilly Springer @springerecon.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

🧵 of my favorite new papers that I saw at #ASHEcon2025 First up is “Stigmas and Social Safety Net Participation” from @kpukelis.bsky.social and Michael Holcomb which finds interesting stigma difference along political lines

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Kelsey Pukelis @kpukelis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Reposting the URLs with hyperlinks here: 📊 www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/sbeccc/s... 📄 kelseypukelis.com/files/Pukeli... 11/10

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program COVID-19 Policy and Enrollment Data, United States, 1987-2024

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Kelsey Pukelis @kpukelis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Many thanks to the data curation team at ICPSR for helping make this data available and user-friendly 10/10

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Kelsey Pukelis @kpukelis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This dataset is for researchers, policymakers, and anyone interested in how SNAP works. Let me know how you use it — or if you’re interested in building on this work! 9/

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Kelsey Pukelis @kpukelis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

For example, the new county-level enrollment data includes enrollment across all calendar months, rather than just January and July. And the new state-level enrollment data contains more detailed information, subject to state availability. 8/

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Kelsey Pukelis @kpukelis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I compiled enrollment data from individual state websites, which is often more comprehensive and detailed than enrollment data from USDA’s SNAP Data Tables. www.fns.usda.gov/pd/supplemen... 7/

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Kelsey Pukelis @kpukelis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

This dataset release includes: ✅ Monthly state-level SNAP policy data (Mar 2020–Jun 2023) ✅ County-level enrollment figures ✅ State-level enrollment details, including breakdowns by apps, recerts, and demographics for select states 6/

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Kelsey Pukelis @kpukelis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

States increased benefit amounts, simplified application & recertification processes, and extended certification periods through policy waivers. And we now have the data to study all of this in depth. 5/

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Kelsey Pukelis @kpukelis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Why does this matter? SNAP enrollment remained elevated for years following COVID-19. An important question is: why? Was it the economy, or the new policies? This data — and my analysis — shows: it was mostly *policy* 4/

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Kelsey Pukelis @kpukelis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I compiled a comprehensive dataset capturing these pandemic-era SNAP changes across states and over time. 3/

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Kelsey Pukelis @kpukelis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Between 2020–2023 in response to COVID-19, the U.S. overhauled how the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) worked — more benefits, simplified enrollment processes, and huge policy flexibility for states. 2/

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Kelsey Pukelis @kpukelis.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

🚨 🚨 New dataset 🚨 🚨 I'm excited to share a new dataset + companion paper covering SNAP policy changes & enrollment data, with a focus on COVID-19-era reforms. 📊https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/sbeccc/studies/39331 📄https://kelseypukelis.com/files/Pukelis_SNAPcovid.pdf A thread🧵 1/

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