In Alabama, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Alabama averaged 13.1%.
- That makes Alabama the 7thhungriest state.
- The official poverty rate (which does not account for post-tax programs such as SNAP, EITC, and others) inthe state averaged 14.6%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does account for post-tax sources of income), the poverty rate falls to 10.3%. In other words, post-tax programs reduced the poverty rate in Alabama by 4.3 percentage points, and the number of people living in poverty decreased by 213,000.
