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SNAP benefits increased resources of poorest U.S. households, reversing declines in income floor

  • by Laura Tiehen and Dean Jolliffe
  • 4/4/2024
  • Farm Bill
Line chart comparing income floor as a percent of the U.S. poverty threshold for households with Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits and without SNAP benefits added to household resources from 1988 to 2016.

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Researchers at USDA, Economic Research Service, the World Bank, and Georgetown University use a metric known as the income floor, which represents the income level of a society’s poorest household, to examine the effectiveness of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in supporting the most impoverished U.S. households.

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