[OC] Anzahl der US-Haushalte, die SNAP-Nahrungsmittelhilfe beantragen, 1994–2026
Von AbsolutelyAce
[OC] Anzahl der US-Haushalte, die SNAP-Nahrungsmittelhilfe beantragen, 1994–2026
Von AbsolutelyAce
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Created by downloading data in Excel files from the Department of Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Service website, wrote some custom TypeScript to extract the data into JSON format (the Excel format had changed over the years so this was difficult), then displayed the data using Recharts and saved it as a PNG manually.
Seems like some context would help a lot with interpreting these numbers
Now do one with the number of US businesses claiming federal or state subsidies, how much those subsidies were, and paired with their effective tax rate for those years.
Wouldn’t percent of households affected be more meaningful than total affected households? Total households went up between 1994-2026, so total affected households would also be expected to go up.
It wasnt called SNAP that whole time. Now do Welfare from the 1970′- 1990’s. With the paper food money& block cheese & powdered milk my grandma got
Probably a more interesting graph would be breaking down by status of recipient.
The fact people can be in work and need SNAP is kinda fucked.
Biggest takeaway is that the 2008 financial crash ultimately only had the effect of making income inequality worse, we’ve never remotely recovered from that and then COVID economic crash further exacerbated income inequality.
This data is meaningless unless it is presented as a percentage of the total number of US households.
The 2020 shift captures a programmatic change AND significant economic event. Although there are really two events that are notable – first is the geometric increase post 2008. The second is obviously the pandemic.
Obama was just giving it away.
There are changes coming in April. I’m not intimately knowledgeable but have been following a bit because I am balls deep in the Medicaid cuts for work, and my understanding is that among other changes certain refugees and asylees will no longer be eligible for SNAP. If that doesn’t bother someone, I am sure there are more changes that would bother them, but I don’t know the extent. The measured way to say it is that the Medicaid cuts are extremely disruptive, and my guess is the same for SNAP.
We never recovered from 2008 did we?
Looks like it tracks the job market closely and when we have high prime age labor force participation rate.
We have more people willing to work and when there is a weaker economy these numbers seem to spike.
It should be noted that 2007 was when the last minimum wage increase was approved by Congress. Republicans have blocked all efforts to increase it since.
The S is for Supplemental.