In Nebraska, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Nebraska averaged 10.6%.
- Nebraska’s food insecurity rate is slightly higher (0.2 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 8.4%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 6.2%. In other words, these programs reduced the poverty rate in Nebraska by 26% and the number of people living in poverty by 43,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 29,000 people above the poverty line in Nebraska, including 16,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
