Compared to Distribution

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Compared to Target

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Compared to a Single Value

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Trend

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Compared to Prior Value

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Food Share Recipients

County: Dane

Measurement Period: 2023

This indicator shows the number of eligible individuals who received FoodShare benefits at least once during the calendar year.

Why is this important?

FoodShare is Wisconsin's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and it helps low-income Wisconsin residents buy food. The purpose of the program is to help people of all ages who have low-income jobs, live on a small or fixed income, are retired, have lost their jobs, or people with disabilities who can't work.

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County: Dane

64,022

Number of recipients

Source: Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Measurement period: 2023
Maintained by: Conduent Healthy Communities Institute
Last update: April 2024

Compared to See the Legend

Technical note: Adults and Children do not sum to Recipient Total because children becoming adults during year are counted in both columns

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Note: Adults and Children do not sum to Recipient Total because children becoming adults during the year are counted as both Eligible Adults and Children recipient.