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Mannix  \nProgram Director/Senior Attorney  \nNational Center for Law and Economic Justice  \n275 Seventh Ave. Suite 1506 New York, NY 10001-6708  \n212.633.6967 [cohan@nclej.org](cohan@nclej.org)[ ](cohan@nclej.org)[mannix@nclej.org](mannix@nclej.org)  \nBy Marc Cohan and Mary R. Mannix  \nn the wake of the deepest recession since the Great Depression, states, counties, and localities have largely failed to ensure that basic safety-net programs such as food  \nestgibamps are readily availle individuals increaasbeldebfoyr15allphousercenholdsfromn nhe 2eed008.1 Thfisecanluymbearro f fheo2od00st9ampfisca–l  \nyear.2 Yet food stamp participation lagged significantly. For example,“[o]fthe nearly 45 million individuals eligible for…benefits in an average month in FY 2009, 32 million (72 percent) participated and more than 12 million did not.”3 Indeed, only 66 percent of people eligible for food stamps in the 2008 fiscal year received them.4  \nSupplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) participation rates vary greatly between states and demographic groups. The lowest participation rate is in the West at 58 percent.5 Participation rates between cities and counties also vary considerably. The Food Research and Action Center estimates that “only 76 percent of eligible people in the 22 cities and urban counties studied participated in the program in December 2008, with rates in individual cities ranging from 40 percent to 98 percent.”6  \n1Effective October 1, 2008, the federal Food Stamp Program was renamed the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and the federal Food Stamp Act was renamed the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, Pub. L. No. 110-246, §§ 4001–4002, 122 Stat. 1651, 1853–1860) . In many states, SNAP benefits are commonly known as food stamps. Here we use the term “food stamps” when referring to the program, enacting federal legislation, and implementing federal regulations. For a discussion of SNAP participation rates, see Joshua lEftin Et al., food and nutrition sErvicE, u. s. dEpartmEnt of agriculturE, trEnds in supplEmEntal nutrition assistancE program participation ratEs: fiscal  \nyEar 2002 to fiscal yEar 2009, at xiii–xiv (Aug. 2011), [http://bit.ly/NryBDb](http://bit.ly/NryBDb).  \n2lEftin Et al. , supra note 1, at xiii.  \n3Id.  \n4Karen Cunnyngham & Laura A. Castner, Food and Nutrition Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture, Reaching Those in Need: State Supplemental Nutrition Program Rates in 2008, at 1–2 (Dec. 2010), [http://bit.ly/MSg51R](http://bit.ly/MSg51R).  \n5Id. In the West, Wyoming had the lowest participation rate, with only 46 percent of eligible households participating.  \n6Food Research and Action Center, SNAP Access in Urban America: A City-by-City Snapshot 2 (Jan. 2011), [http://bit.ly/P28Ck7](http://bit.ly/P28Ck7) . The Food Research and Action Center’s lowest estimates of the proportion of SNAP-eligible people who are actually enrolled in the program in the twenty-two survey areas were for San Diego, California (40 percent); Denver, Colorado (46 percent); and Los Angeles, California (56 percent) . The highest were for Washington, D.C. 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