SNAP KEEPS MILLIONS OUT OF POVERTY

SNAP kept about 4.9 million people out of poverty in 2012, including about 2.2 million children, according to a recent analysis by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities.  The analysis uses the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, which counts SNAP benefits as income. National Poverty Center researchers found that counting SNAP benefits as income cuts the number of extremely poor households with children in 2011 by nearly half and cuts the number of extremely poor children by two-thirds (from 3.6 million to 1.2 million).

 

Source: Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, 6/10/14, SNAP Fights Poverty