Alabama: A Hunger and Poverty Snapshot

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In Alabama, between 2019-2021:

  • Food insecurity in Alabama averaged 13.1%.
  • That makes Alabama the 7thhungriest state.
  • The official poverty rate (which does not account for post-tax programs such as SNAP, EITC, and others) inthe state averaged 14.6%.
  • But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does account for post-tax sources of income), the poverty rate falls to 10.3%. In other words, post-tax programs reduced the poverty rate in Alabama by 4.3 percentage points, and the number of people living in poverty decreased by 213,000.

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