In Minnesota, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Minnesota averaged 7.4%.
- Minnesota’s food insecurity rate was 29% 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 7.0%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 5.1%. In other words, these programs reduced the poverty rate in Minnesota by 28% and the number of people living in poverty by 107,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 69,000 people above the poverty line in Minnesota, including 32,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
