Description: <div style="font-family:Calibri; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:14.6667px;">This layer includes percentage of households that have food stamp/SNAP recipient's for Neighborhood Districts in Longmont. This data is from the U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-year, 2019 dataset and has been spatially joined to respective Neighborhood Districts.</div><div style="font-family:Calibri; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:14.6667px;"><br /></div><div style="font-family:Calibri; color:rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size:14.6667px;">This map is one of the layers used to create an economic vulnerability layer for the Climate Risk Mapping Tool. Economic vulnerability influences a community's ability to adapt to climate change. <a href="https://www.urban.org/urban-wire/food-insecurity-rise-proposed-farm-bill-spending-cuts-snap-are-dangerous" target="_blank">According to an Urban Institute analysis in 2023</a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;">, SNAP benefits were too low to help families afford food. Climate change will disrupt the global supply chain (</span><a href="https://www.usda.gov/oce/energy-and-environment/food-security" target="_blank">USDA, 2015</a><span style="font-size:14.6667px;">), likely increasing the cost of food and making access to food more difficult for those who depend on supplemental nutrition assistance.</span></div>
Copyright Text: U.S. Census American Community Survey 5-year estimate, 2019
Spatially joined to Longmont Neighborhood Districts by RTI International