In Alaska, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Alaska averaged 9.50%.
- Alaska’s food insecurity rate was 9% lower than the nation as a whole (10.4%).
- The official poverty rate (which does not account for income from safety-net and tax-support programs such as SNAP, EITC, and others) in the state averaged 11.70%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 9.8%. In other words, these programs reduced the poverty rate in Alaska by 16% and the number of people living in poverty by 13,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 24,000 people above the poverty line in Alaska, including 11,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
