Could you explain the hypothesis, the type of research?qualitative, quantitative, statistical, and weather the hypothesis was supported or not supported in this article ?

These rates of food insecurity and the attendant consequences would have been far higher were it not for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) (see, e.g., Gundersen et al., 2017, Swann, 2017, Gregory and Smith, 2019 for evidence of this success). Despite the existence of SNAP, persons are still food insecure insofar as (a) SNAP benefits may not be high enough to secure food security, (b) eligible households may not receive SNAP, and (c) some ineligible households are food insecure. I find an 88.8% decline in food insecurity rates if the costs are borne by households in higher income-tax brackets. The cost to this would be approximately $730.1 billion. If, instead, the UBI was modified such that only those with incomes up to 400% of the poverty line were eligible, the decline in food insecurity is similar but at a much lower cost of $408.5 billion. If benefits were expanded by roughly 25% and only for those with incomes under 400% of the poverty line, the reduction would be 98.2% at a cost of $564.5 billion. The primary concern of this paper is about the impact of a SNAP UBI on food insecurity. In the simple heuristic depicted in Fig. 1, the probability of food insecurity is on the y-axis and income is on the x-axis2. The black solid line is the case when neither SNAP nor a SNAP UBI in place. This is downward sloping consistent with the well-established inverse relationship between income and food insecurity (e.g., Coleman-Jensen et al., 2020a). Eventually the solid line becomes coincident with the x-axis when the probability of food insecurity is zero3. If a SNAP UBI were put into place, this would act as an increase in resources to purchase food with a corresponding decline in the probability of food insecurity for any given amount of non-UBI income as indicated by the blue dashed line4. The difference between the black and blue line on the horizontal axis is the dollar value of the UBI. If we were instead to construct this difference in the probability of food insecurity to reflect current5 SNAP recipients the relevant decline in the probability of food insecurity would be less insofar as they are already receiving SNAP and, therefore the relevant increase in SNAP would be smaller.

Probability of Food Insecurity UBI SNAP Income