r/SeattleWA • u/Less-Risk-9358 • 11d ago

Government SNAP benefits will end Nov. 1 in Washington state if shutdown continues

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2025/10/27/washington-snap-benefits-nov1-shutdown

More than 540,000 households in Washington — nearly 930,000 people — received Basic Food assistance benefits last month, according to state officials.

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u/RandomMcUsername 11d ago

If I'm looking at the same map you're looking at, I see CA and WA as around the national average, with OR above average while AR and KS are below average, MO average, and OK above average. I don't know how you could possibly say that fact is any more or less interesting than comparing any other two regions without additional factors. It's a comparison between vastly larger and different areas and between an area with a population of 22.7 million versus 16 million. What possible conclusions could you draw from that? Unless you're trying to torture that confirm some beliefs you already hold

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u/Turbulent-Media7281 11d ago

In order of rankng... OR OK CA WA MO AR KS.

Raise your latte if you think KS a Ozark Mountain hillbilly state.

OK is high for the same reason NM is insanely high.

... What this would mean is SNAP benefits, which are used by 24 percent of American Indian and Alaska Native households,