In Wyoming, between 2019-2021:
- Food insecurity in Wyoming averaged 11.2%.
- Wyoming’s food insecurity rate was 7% 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 9.4%.
- But using the Supplemental Poverty Measure (which does include safety-net and tax-support income), the poverty rate falls to 7.2%. In other words, these programs reduced the poverty rate in Wyoming by 24% and the number of people living in poverty decreased by 8,000.
- SNAP, alone, lifted 9,000 people above the poverty line in Wyoming, including 4,000 children, per year between 2013 and 2017, on average.
