Would take that graph with a grain of salt.
The chart shared on social media originated from a June blog post from The Personal Finance Wizards, which cited “US Census Table S0201” as its source. The site offers financial advice, but published a disclaimer saying it cannot guarantee the “completeness, accuracy, or reliability” of its information.
The site’s authors appeared to cherry-pick groups to include in the chart, noting, “It’s important to note that the graph highlights a selection of ethnicities we felt would be most relevant and engaging for our audience.” It did not name an author.
In a comment on an Instagram post sharing the chart, Personal Finance Wizards shared a link to the US Census table it used. It shows data from the 2024 American Community Survey, filtered by 49 racial and ethnic groups. The filtered groups don’t completely overlap with the groups in the chart, but the dataset has a column for “households with food stamp/SNAP benefits”, which shows percentages similar to the ones in the chart.
The data does not show what percentage of all SNAP beneficiaries belong to an ethnic or nationality group.
According to the most recent USDA data available, from 2023, white people are the largest racial group receiving SNAP benefits, at 35.4 percent. African Americans are next, making up 25.7 percent of recipients, then Hispanic people at 15.6 percent, Asian people at 3.9 percent, Native Americans at 1.3 percent and multiracial people at 1 percent. The race of 17 percent of participants is unknown.
The same report found that 89.4 percent of SNAP recipients were US-born citizens, meaning less than 11 percent of SNAP participants were foreign-born. Of the latter figure, 6.2 percent were naturalised citizens, 1.1 percent were refugees and 3.3 percent were other noncitizens, including lawful permanent residents and other eligible noncitizens.
I am sure the usual groups are up there, I mean everyone here knows certain groups are more perished (Edit: LMAO, meant impoverished, had my mind on food), fact is though the wealth gap has also increased 10 fold, and the middle and lower class are more dependent than ever. The good days are long, long gone and I only foresee more bad days coming until we somehow achieve some UBI but even that will be impacted by the wealth gap, have to keep the poors poor afterall.
That definitely adds perspective, but the percent I was talking about was percent of the segment (percent recipient from total count of ethnic group). If I follow your post is percent of total recipient. Two different perspectives. Actually can't get the gov site to load now*... Go figure
Example
About 4.5% of whites of total pop on SNAP. Which represents 37% of snap recipients.
This post was edited by RedFromWinter on Oct 30 2025 08:58am