In Florida, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Florida averaged 9.90%.
- Florida’s food insecurity rate was 5% lower 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 12.5%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 11.9%. In other words, these programs reduced the poverty rate in Florida by 5% and the number of people living in poverty decreased by 125,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 525,000 people above the poverty line in Florida, including 239,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
