- Feeding America, 2019
- United Ways of California: The Real Cost Measure in California.
- California Senate Budget Committee, Subcommittee No. 3 on Health and Human Services, Hearing Agenda for March 19, 2026.
- Urban Institute, “Paperwork Burdens Cost One in Eight Working-Age SNAP Recipients Their Benefits in 2024,”
- Urban Institute, “Food Insecurity Remained High in 2025, As Safety Net Cuts Loom,”
- United Ways of California, The Real Cost Measure in California – 97 % of California households who are struggling to afford basic needs, have at least 1 working adult
- Alimentando a América
- Statistical Supplement to Household Food Security in the United States in 2023, USDA
- California Association of Food Banks analysis of data from the Department of Social Services and US Census Bureau, American Community Survey
- California Association of Food Banks analysis of data from the Department of Social Services and US Census Bureau, American Community Survey
- The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Economy: New Estimates of the SNAP Multiplier, USDA. (The USDA estimates that the economic multiplier for everyone $1 in SNAP benefits is between $1.50 and as high as $1.80 during economic downturns. We have chosen the higher end because of continued economic conditions for low-income Californians, and the outsized food economy in California including production, harvesting, transportation, and other sectors.)
- SNAP Retailer Locator, USDA
- State Level Monthly SNAP Data, USDA
- California Budget & Policy Center analysis of data from the Department of Social Services and US Census Bureau, American Community Survey
- Statistical Supplement to Household Food Security in the United States in 2023, USDA
- Exhaustion of Food Budgets At Month’s End And Hospital Admissions For Hypoglycemia, Health Affairs
- Household Food Insecurity Data, California Association of Food Banks
- Household Food Insecurity Data, California Association of Food Banks
- Household Food Insecurity Data, California Association of Food Banks
- SNAP Recipient Quote
- Food Insecurity Data
- School Meals for All
- Child nutrition investments should never come at the expense of SNAP
- Hunger cliff for 5 million Californians
- Benefit Redemption Pattern, 2025 – USDA
- Food Insecurity Data
- HR 2 – Agriculture Improvement Act 2018
- Modernization of the TFP, 2021, USDA
- SNAP Increase Kept 2.9M out of Poverty, 2025 Urban Institute
- Feeding America Poll, 2023
- Center Budget and Policy Priorities, 2025
- California CalFresh Data Dashboard, 2025
- USDA, 2019
- California CalFresh Data Dashboard, 2025
- Food Research and Action Center, 2025
- Feeding America, 2019
- 4 million households can’t afford basic needs
- 1 in 3 Californians faces or is at risk of poverty-related hunger
- Californians have made clear they need more help
- SNAP’s powerful counter-cyclical role
- Devastating cuts to benefits that will hurt our grocers and food economy
- SNAP benefits average just $6.20 per person per day
- Senate and House budget resolution to slash at least $230 billion from SNAP
- Congress must protect and strengthen SNAP
- Feeding America, 2019
- Feeding America, 2019
- Data sources for graph: “Food Assistance Sources for Californians, 2021”
