In New Mexico, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in New Mexico averaged 11.5%.
- New Mexico’s food insecurity rate was 10% higher 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 16.7%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 10.6%. In other words, these programs reduced the poverty rate in New Mexico by 36% and the number of people living in poverty by 127,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 64,000 people above the poverty line in New Mexico, including 28,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
