The 2017 figure is the lowest since 2010, when 40.3 million people were on food stamps. The number peaked in 2013, at 47.6 million. An early version of SNAP began as legislation enacted in 1959.

Their percentage of that caseload grew from 6.9 percent in 2008 to 9.7 percent in 2010. The total number of people on food stamps -- formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program ...

On average, 41.2 million people in 21.6 million households received monthly SNAP benefits ... American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands. How has the number of food stamp recipients changed over ...