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Grocery prices rose sharply during Joe Biden’s presidency—U.S. “food at home” CPI climbed about 20.7% from Jan 2021 to Dec 2023, outpacing average hourly wage growth of 14.7% over the same period (Wis...
Publicly available USDA-based reporting and fact-checking say non-Hispanic White people are the single largest racial group among SNAP recipients in recent data — about 35% of recipients in the most-c...
Grocery (food-at-home) prices jumped sharply in 2022, then slowed: food prices rose 11.4% in 2022, 5.8% in 2023 and 2.3% in 2024, and USDA/ERS forecast food-at-home to increase about 3.3% in 2025 (ERS...
Beef prices in the U.S. have reached record highs in 2025 because cattle inventories are at multidecade lows while demand remains strong; USDA and industry forecasts expect beef and veal retail prices...
The most authoritative recent national breakdown of SNAP recipients by race comes from USDA’s FY2023 Quality Control data and was summarized by fact-checkers and analysts: in 2023 non-Hispanic White r...
Most credible analyses show , though SNAP participation rises with unemployment during downturns. Federal data and recent reporting converge on the point that many SNAP households contain workers or r...
The clearest picture from government and independent analyses is that in 2025 SNAP serves roughly 41.7 million people in about 22–22.7 million households, making it a broad, majority-U.S.-born safety ...
Yes and no: grocery prices rose substantially while Joe Biden was president, but the rise reflects pandemic-era supply shocks, energy and transportation costs, and broader inflationary forces — not a ...
Government actions between 2023 and 2025—especially new tariffs on key food imports, targeted farm assistance, SNAP benefit changes, and local subsidies for grocery access—shifted the mix of forces af...
SNAP-related employment patterns differ noticeably across states and by the kinds of jobs recipients hold: participation and program exposure vary state-by-state, and most workers in SNAP households a...
SNAP expenditures rose steadily after the 2008 recession, peaked during the Great Recession era, then declined through 2019 before surging sharply in 2020–2021 largely because of temporary pandemic-er...
USDA FNS reports show SNAP averaged about 42.2 million participants per month in FY2023 and about 41.7 million in FY2024; FNS’s annual data table also lists an FY2025 annual summary of 42,406,479 part...
Federal records show SNAP spending in fiscal year (FY) 2023 was $112.8 billion, down from its pandemic peak of $125.0 billion in FY2021 (USDA Economic Research Service) . USDA and FNS data pages provi...
Jordan W. Jones’ USDA/ERS chart reports 41.7 million people served monthly by SNAP in fiscal year 2024 (12.3% of the U.S. population) . ERS age-breakdown tables for FY2023 show adults aged 18–59 made ...
Available USDA reporting and contemporary fact-checking do not present SNAP recipients split exactly as “41% adults 18–59 with disabilities and 19% age 60+” summing to 60% adults. The USDA’s FY2023 Ch...
State-level policies and administrative choices — especially work requirements, waiver use, immigrant eligibility rules, and how states implement enrollment and recertification — shape racial gaps in ...
Avian influenza (HPAI) was the dominant shock pushing U.S. egg prices sharply higher between 2021 and 2025, triggering the culling of tens to hundreds of millions of birds and causing wholesale prices...
Wholesale commodity prices — for corn, wheat, pork and dairy — matter to grocery bills but explain only part of recent retail price decreases: farm/commodity costs make up a minority of final retail p...
States with more children in households tend to show higher SNAP reliance and larger average household benefits because households with children are both more likely to qualify and receive larger allo...
USMCA preserves largely duty-free movement of qualifying Canadian beef into the United States, and the agreement’s sanitary and rules-of-origin provisions facilitate integrated North American cattle a...