{"id":15589,"date":"2013-08-16T09:45:27","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T14:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/chart-of-the-week-food-stamp-enrollment-by-state-over-time\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T03:30:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T08:30:19","slug":"chart-of-the-week-food-stamp-enrollment-by-state-over-time","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/beta.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2013\/08\/16\/chart-of-the-week-food-stamp-enrollment-by-state-over-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Chart of the Week: Food stamp enrollment by state, over time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Participation in the federal food stamp program (formally the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program<\/a>) soared following the 2008-09 financial crisis, both in raw numbers and as a share of the population. As of May, the most recent month for which data are available, 47.6 million people, or 15% of the population, received food stamps; in fiscal 2007, before the Great Recession, participation averaged 26.3 million people, or 8.7% of the population.<\/p>\n\n

But individual states differ widely, not just in participation rates (23% in D.C., 7% in Wyoming) but in their patterns as well. Using data from the Agriculture Department and the Census Bureau, The Wall Street Journal built this nifty interactive chart<\/a> that allows users to visualize those state-by-state differences.<\/p>\n\n

Louisiana, for example, typically has one of the nation’s highest food-stamp participation rates, but participation soars during major natural disasters — such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005, Gustav and Ike in 2008, and Isaac this past September. Mississippi’s participation also spiked after Katrina and Rita; in May 2011,\u00a0\u00a0a spate of severe weather in Alabama led to a jump there.<\/p>\n\n

Alaska’s SNAP participation regularly drops late \u00a0in each year, giving its chart a bit of an EKG-like appearance. That’s almost certainly due to the dividend payments<\/a> Alaskans receive in or near October of each year from that state’s Permanent Fund. The dividend, which was $878 last year, fluctuates based on the Permanent Fund’s earnings<\/a>; it can represent a significant source of cash income for many Alaskans, especially in rural areas.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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