In Kansas, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Kansas averaged 10.2%.
- Kansas’s food insecurity rate was 2% 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 8.6%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 6.0%. In other words, these programs reduced the poverty rate in Kansas by 30% and the number of people living in poverty decreased by 75,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 65,000 people above the poverty line in Kansas, including 33,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
