In Oregon, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Oregon averaged 10.3%.
- Oregon’s food insecurity rate was slightly lower (0.1 percentage point) 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 9.0%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 7.0%. In other words, these programs reduced the poverty rate in Oregon by 22% and the number of people living in poverty by 80,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 117,000 people above the poverty line in Oregon, including 50,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
