NPP: Half of Those Eligible Receive Food Stamps
by Craig Jennings, 8/14/2007
A report by the National Priorities Project finds that of all people that are income-eligible to receive food stamps, only half actually receive them.
- Half of all low-income people did not receive Food Stamp Program benefits.
- Counties with lower poverty rates and higher median household incomes had lower percentages of low-income people that were Food Stamp recipients.
- A significant number of counties, 13.2 percent, had below-average percentages of Food Stamps, yet had above-average poverty rates.
- The rural South had the highest percentage of enrollment in the Food Stamp program and more than half of all children were eligible for lunches through the National School Lunch Program.
