SNAP Helps Millions of Workers in Low-Paying Jobs – CBPP

“(Food Stamps) Assist Workers With Low Wages, Irregular Schedules, Few Benefits”

“Roughly 15.7 million workers, or about 10 percent of all workers, are in households where someone participated in SNAP in the last year, CBPP analysis of data from the 2022 American Community Survey finds. In several occupations — including home health and personal care aides, school bus monitors, agricultural graders and sorters, and maids and housekeeping cleaners — more than 1 in 5 workers participate in SNAP.”

Policy Changes That Can Improve Quality of Low-Paying Jobs:

• Minimum wage increases. 
• Scheduling and leave legislation. 
• Enforcing existing labor laws. 
• Unemployment insurance reforms. 
• Increasing access to childcare.
• Strengthening and expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). 
• Expanding the Child Tax Credit. 

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