The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest nutrition assistance program in the United States, providing credits for food purchase to low-income participants and households. Missouri KIDS COUNT is the state data provider for the national KIDS COUNT project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. KIDS COUNT supports children’s well-being by providing data to inform policy and investments.
In 2018, we posted a story map exploring topics including food insecurity and asthma hospitalizations in addition to SNAP benefits. This month’s story map compares the 2018 map for the percentage of children in Missouri households by county that receive SNAP benefits to the most recent corresponding Missouri KIDS COUNT data from 2023.
Missouri Census Data Center partners with MSDIS on mapping and data projects. MSDIS is a spatial data retrieval and archival system offering many mapping resources, primarily focused on the state of Missouri.