In Arizona, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Arizona averaged 10.10%.
- Arizona’s food insecurity rate was slightly lower (0.3 percentage points) than the national average of 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 11.2%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 9.0%. In other words, these programs reduced the poverty rate in Arizona by 20% and the number of people living in poverty by 160,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 204,000 people above the poverty line in Arizona, including 104,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
