The National Center for Children in Poverty’s (NCCP) 50-State Comparison of Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) Policies Linked to Child and Family Protection for the program can support the work of policymakers and advocates. In states that enacted them during the years 2004 through 2016, each of four policies included here contributed to reductions in child maltreatment, child neglect, and foster care placements by increasing the number of households participating in the program. Since the cumulative number of adopted policies has an especially strong association with child and family well-being, we provide a count, or scorecard, of how many of the policies each state each state adopted as of 2024, ranging from zero to four.
A 50-State Comparison of SNAP Policies Linked to Child and Family Protection
- Post author Karen Chatfield, Daniel Ferguson, Lauren Hecht
- Project Improving Family Economic Security Through Evidence-Based State Policy Reforms;
- Publication Type Fact Sheet
- Post date January 23, 2025