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The Great Recession had profound effects on families across the United States, and economic recovery has been slow. Poverty and unemployment remained high in 2011, and job growth was stagnant.1 Amid these signs of a sluggish recovery, social safety net programs have played a key role in supporting vulnerable families. Perhaps one of the most efficient and effective safety net programs,2 the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP (formerly known as food stamps), has remained particularly important for providing families and children with nutritious foods and alleviating poverty. For example, if SNAP benefits were counted as income, 4.4 percent fewer families would have been considered poor between 2000 and 2009.3 SNAP funding also has a multiplicative economic effect on communities, and research shows that every $5 increase in benefits generates $9 of economic activity.4 This brief uses data from the American Community Survey to examine rates of SNAP receipt in 2011, with particular attention to changes since the onset of the recession, and to receipt by family composition, region, and place type (rural, suburban, and central city locations). It also explores SNAP receipt among households at particular risk for food insecurity, such as households containing seniors, a person with a disability, and people in poverty.

Recent data show continued growth in Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program use