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What the data says about food stamps in the U.S. – Pew Research Center
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What the data says about food stamps in the U.S.
A sign in the window of a Miami grocery store shows it accepts payments through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)Even before large pieces of the federal government shut down in October 2025, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP – sometimes called the food stamp program – was in for some big changes.
The tax, spending and policy bill passed by Congress earlier this year expanded work requirements for SNAP, tightened eligibility rules, imposed new cost-sharing obligations on states and made other changes to the program. The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the changes will reduce federal spending on SNAP by $186.7 billion over the next decade.
But the 43-day shutdown created further challenges for the program, which helps nearly 42 million Americans put food on the table. While October benefits were paid in full and on time, November’s payments got caught up in a tangle of lawsuits, conflicting court rulings and short-term, state-level fixes. The law reopening the government funds SNAP through September 2026, the end of the current fiscal year.
Here’s a closer look at the food stamp program, based on data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (whose Food and Nutrition Service administers SNAP), the Census Bureau and other sources.
- How many Americans use food stamps?
- How has the number of food stamp recipients changed over time?
- Who is eligible for food stamps?
- What work requirements are there for receiving food stamps?
- What do we know about food stamp recipients in the U.S.?
- How much do food stamp recipients get each month?
- Where is food stamp usage highest and lowest?
- What can you buy with food stamps? What can’t you buy?
- Where can people use food stamps? Where do they use them most frequently?
- How much does the federal government spend on food stamps each year?
- How has the cost of the food stamp program changed over time?
- Why are they called “food stamps,” anyway?
How we did this
Pew Research Center conducted this analysis to learn more about the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamps. The nation’s largest food assistance program, SNAP became entangled in the 43-day budget standoff between congressional Democrats, Republicans and the Trump administration.
Our main data source was the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), the agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture that administers SNAP and other food assistance programs. We supplemented the FNS data with data from the Census Bureau’s Survey of Income and Program Participation, which focuses on the demographic and other characteristics of people and households who receive various forms of federal assistance. We also used the Census Bureau’s population and household estimates in some of our analyses. Finally, we obtained government expenditure data for other federal assistance programs from the Office of Management and Budget.
Our analysis of SNAP participation rates in states and territories used data on SNAP recipients for May 2025 and Census Bureau population estimates for July 2024, the most recent available. For Guam and the Virgin Islands, which the census did not publish estimates of, we used 2024 population estimates from the CIA World Factbook.
How many Americans use food stamps?
The numbers vary from month to month. But in May 2025, the most recent month with available figures, 41.7 million people in 22.4 million households received SNAP benefits. That works out to nearly 1 in every 8 people in the country.
On average, 42.4 million people in 22.7 million households received monthly SNAP benefits through the first eight months of the 2025 fiscal year (October 2024 to May 2025).
SNAP operates in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Guam and the Virgin Islands. A separate program provides nutrition assistance grants to Puerto Rico, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Editor’s Note: The full online article linked below is long and great. Contains multiple looks at the SNAP and hunger and safety net matter. In addition, based on the report data, I had my AI partners (ChatGPT & Google Gemini) prepare two (2) images to illustrate the data. They are posted below. –DrWeb
Continue/Read Original Article Here: What the data says about food stamps in the U.S. | Pew Research Center
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We are told our nation is "broke." We are told we can't afford to solve our most basic human crises. But this is a lie of priorities, not of scarcity.
Wouldn't it be better to redistribute the wealth by feeding the hungry, housing the homeless, and healing the sick? You know, because it is the right thing to do.
Estimates show it would cost around $20 billion per year to provide the permanent supportive housing needed to effectively end chronic homelessness in the U.S.
Making the national school lunch program universally free for every child, ending "lunch debt" and child hunger at school, would cost approximately $5.6 billion per year in addition to current funding.
These are not astronomical sums. They are a rounding error for the ultra-wealthy. We could solve these profound social failures for a fraction of the annual gains on the stock portfolios of the top 1%.
Instead, we are told to worry... "Oh no, Bezos might move away! If we tax the ultra rich they will all move away!" Cool, we'd be so much better off!
First, that threat is mostly a bluff. The "irreplaceable founder" is a myth. If Bezos leaves, he doesn't get to take the Amazon warehouses, the distribution network, or the thousands of U.S. employees with him. The assets, infrastructure, and markets that generate the wealth stay right here.
Plus, academic studies and historical tax data show "tax flight" is not a real phenomenon. One of the most thorough studies on the topic was by Stanford sociologist Cristobal Young who analyzed 13 years of tax returns for every millionaire in the U.S.
He found that millionaires are the least likely group to move. They are more rooted in their communities, businesses, and social networks than the general population. The idea that they will all flee to a low-tax country is a political scare tactic, not an economic reality.
When I say we'd be "better off," I'm not just being facetious. Their departure would be a "corruption drain."
Extreme, concentrated wealth doesn't just sit there; it is used to buy political influence. It is funneled into an army of lobbyists, Super PACs, and media organizations, all designed to do one thing: skew policy, kill regulations, and lower their own taxes.
The massive financial influence strangles our democracy. It ensures that the needs of the wealthy are heard in the halls of Congress, while the needs of the people are ignored. Getting that corrupting money out of our political system is a massive net gain for a functioning society.
Finally, the redistributed money is simply better for the economy.
Wealth hoarded at the top is "low-velocity." It sits in passive stock portfolios and hedge funds inflating asset bubbles but doing nothing for the real economy.
Money given to the poor and middle class (through programs like universal school lunch or housing) is "high-velocity." It gets spent immediately on rent, groceries, car repairs, and local services. This directly stimulates Main Street, creates jobs, and builds a more stable, resilient economy from the ground up.
Taxing the rich to feed the hungry isn't just charity; it's a powerful and efficient economic stimulus.
This "high-velocity" principle doesn't just apply to one-off programs. It’s the logic that underpins the biggest progressive goals: Universal Basic Income (UBI) and Universal Healthcare (UHC).
Universal Basic Income is the ultimate economic stimulant. It's a direct, recurring cash injection to the bottom 90%, creating a stable consumer base that fuels local economies. Roosevelt Institute found that a UBI, by increasing demand, would grow the economy by 12.5% over eight years. It’s not a "handout"; it's a permanent investment in the Main Street businesses that are starved for customers.
Universal Healthcare acts as a massive economic liberation. It frees tens of millions of Americans from medical debt, which is still a top cause of personal bankruptcy. That money would be "high-velocity," but is instead is siphoned off by collection agencies and a the parasitic insurance industry.
By separating insurance from employment, UHC would finally break the "job lock" that traps millions in jobs they hate. Studies repeatedly show "job lock" suppresses entrepreneurship. The act of freeing people to take risks, start their own businesses or move to a better-fitting job would unleash a wave of innovation and economic dynamism that our current system smothers.
The choice is clear. The "lie of scarcity" is a tool used by the wealthy to protect their hoarded wealth at the expense of our society.
Sources and further reading:
American Progress - https://www.americanprogress.org/article/faith-in-values-resolve-to-end-homelessness-in-2013/
American Inequality - https://www.americaninequality.io/homelessness
Jacobin - https://jacobin.com/2023/03/universal-free-school-lunch-means-testing-education-fees
Cristobal Young - https://cristobalyoung.com/research/taxing-the-rich-millionaire-migration/
UBI (Roosevelt Institute): https://rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/macroeconomic-effects-universal-basic-income-ubi/
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When you're hungry, but all the food in the house isn't the right food for right now, even though you don't know what you want to eat.
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“Dozens of bookstores have rallied around the issue of food insecurity in recent weeks…”
One small bookstore owner in Texas said, “During times like this, it's hard to look away. I just thought, I'm very small, and I don't know how much of an impact I can make. But I have to do something."
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/books/bookstores-food-banks-snap-recipients.html
The bookstore owner said, "We're not sitting here sad that everything is burning. We're going to find a fire extinguisher."
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“With federal funding for food stamps threatened, employees at Sower Books in Lincoln, Nebraska “set up a food collection bin near the front door. Customers & neighbors brought in bags & boxes of groceries; others came to browse for books, saw the bin and returned later with their own donations. Within a week, the storage room was stuffed with close to 2,000 pounds of food.”
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A heartwarming story about how bookstores around the country are pitching in to help the hungry during the US government shutdown.
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