State-by-State Resource: How Food Banks and the Farm Bill's Nutrition Programs Address Hunger in the United States

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Citations

Charitable Food Assistance in 2022

• “Charitable Food Assistance Participation in 2022,” Feeding America (Feeding America, June 2023), https://www.feedingamerica.org/sites/default/files/2023-06/Charitable%20Food%20Assistance%20Participation%20in%202022.pdf.

Average Food Insecurity (2020-2022)

• Rabbitt et al, Households Food Security in the United States in 2022, USDA Economic Research Service (2023), https://search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/delivery/
  01NAL_INST:MAIN/12411959980007426.

Child Food Insecurity (2021)

• Hake et al, Map the Meal Gap 2023: An Analysis of County and Congressional District Food Insecurity and County Food Cost in the United States in 2021, Feeding America (2023), https://www.feedingamerica.org/sites/default/files/2023-05/Map%20the%20Meal%20Gap%202023.pdf.

Senior Food Insecurity (2021)

• James Ziliak and Craig Gunderson, The State of Senior Hunger in America in 2021: An Annual Report, Feeding America (2023), https://www.feedingamerica.org/sites/default/files/2023-04/State%20of%20Senior%20Hunger%20in%202021.pdf.

Food Insecurity by Race and Ethnicity (2021)

• Hake et al., Map the Meal Gap 2023: An Analysis of County and Congressional District Food Insecurity and County Food Cost in the United States in 2021.

Meals Distributed by Feeding America Network (Feeding America Fiscal Years 2019-2023)

• Calculated by dividing the pounds distributed by the Feeding America Network by food source from FY19-FY23(sourced from the Quarterly Poundage Report) by 1.2, which is the estimated cost of one meal, after deducting an estimate of non-food items. This conversion figure comes from USDA’s What We Eat In America Database, which is the estimated weight of one meal. Pounds per Meal is calculated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service (ARS) based on What We Eat in America (WWEIA) study. https://www.ars.usda.gov/northeast-area/beltsville-md-bhnrc/beltsville-human-nutrition-research-center/food-surveys-research-group/docs/wweianhanes-overview/.

SNAP Participant Demographics (Federal Fiscal Year 2022)

• Hall, Lauren, and Catlin Nchako. “A Closer Look at Who Benefits from SNAP: State-by-State Fact Sheets.” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, February 13, 2023. https://www.cbpp.org/research/food-assistance/a-closer-look-at-who-benefits-from-snap-state-by-state-fact-sheets#Alabama.

Total SNAP Benefits (Federal Fiscal Years 2019-2023)

• United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, February 2023. National and/or State Level Monthly and/or Annual Data -FY69 through FY23, February 2024, https://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap.

Average Number of SNAP Recipients/Month (Federal Fiscal Years 2019-2023)

• United States Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service, “National and/or State Level Monthly and/or Annual Data -FY69 through FY23”, February 2024. https://www.fns.usda.gov/pd/supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap.