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| SNAP enrollment as a percentage of county population. (Daily Yonder map; click the image to enlarge it) |
Though use of the Supplemental Assistance Nutrition Program, once known as food stamps, is declining nationwide as the U.S. recovers from the Great Recession, rural areas rely on it far more. When U.S. counties are ranked by the percentage of population that participates in SNAP, 85 of the top 100 are rural, according to 2015 census data. Rural areas are likely to rely on SNAP at a higher rate for the forseeable future, since most rural counties haven't yet reached pre-Recession job levels. The counties most reliant on SNAP tend to be in Indian Country, Appalachia, and the Black Belt South, Tim Marema reports for The Daily Yonder.
"SNAP is in the news because of a dust up in the House of Representatives," Marema reports. "Republicans on the Agriculture Committee have passed a farm bill that could cut as much as $9 billion from SNAP. This maneuver appears to be shattering the classic coalition of lawmakers that normally makes the farm bill a bipartisan exercise."
Click here for a list of the top 100 counties by population percentage reliant on SNAP.
Click here for an interactive map of each U.S. county's reliance on SNAP.
from The Rural Blog https://ift.tt/2jFVWFq Interactive map shows how much each county relies on SNAP; rural counties overall need it much more - Entrepreneur Generations
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