In Georgia, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Georgia averaged 9.90%.
- Georgia’s food insecurity rate was 0.5% lower 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 13.1%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 10.2%. In other words, these programs reduced the poverty rate in Georgia by 22% and the number of people living in poverty decreased by 302,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 339,000 people above the poverty line in Georgia, including 160,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
