During the Great Recession, it is unlikely that three of Arizona's five largest counties would have been able to obtain a waiver from SNAP work requirements under new rules 

Monthly unemployment rate (not seasonally adjusted), select Arizona counties

Shaded area denotes the Great Recession. Dotted line represents the new threshold to obtain SNAP work requirement waiver.
Chart: Arizona Center for Economic ProgressSource: Bureau of Labor StatisticsGet the dataCreated with Datawrapper