Potential cuts to Medicaid and SNAP could lead to significant job losses in Arizona, according to a new report.
Thousands of Arizonans, young and old, rely on Medicaid for health care and SNAP for food. Now a new report from The Commonwealth Fund and the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health looks at what could happen if Congress makes cuts to these programs.
"What we found when we did our analysis was for Arizona, the implications are quite dire," said Leighton Ku, a professor of health policy and management at George Washington University. He’s also the lead author of the study.
"Probably, the headline should be that in the next year, as many as 27,000 jobs might be lost in Arizona because of this," Ku said.
Ku says those job losses would be in health care and food-related sectors. The report looked at all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
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