In Connecticut, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Connecticut averaged 9.60%.
- Connecticut’s food insecurity rate was 9% lower than the national average of 10.4%.2The 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 9.2%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 9.0%, reducing the number of people living in poverty in Connecticut by 6,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 77,000 people above the poverty line in Connecticut, including 31,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
