In Oklahoma, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Oklahoma averaged 13.80%.
- That makes Oklahoma the 5th hungriest state with a food insecurity rate 25% 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 13.80% as well.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 9.1%. In other words, these programs reduced the poverty rate in Oklahoma by 34% and the number of people living in poverty by 183,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 101,000 people above the poverty line in Oklahoma, including 47,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
