Food Stamp Usage Across the Country - Interactive Map - NYTimes.com

Published: November 28, 2009

The number of food stamp recipients has climbed by about 10 million over the past two years, resulting in a program that now feeds 1 in 8 Americans and nearly 1 in 4 children. Related Article »

Note: Figures are based on requests to food stamp programs in all 50 states. Rates are based on county population estimates; in cases where the percentage of food stamp recipients exceeded 90% of the population estimate, it is labeled as >90%. County-level data was not available for Rhode Island.
You can download a spreadsheet containing the data displayed on the map.

By Matthew Bloch, Jason DeParle, Matthew Ericson and Robert Gebeloff |

Sources: state agencies; U.S. Department of Agriculture; Census Bureau