Figure A. Medicaid and SNAP cuts hit hardest in counties that can bear them the least

Binned scatterplot of a county's unemployment rate and the share of a county's total income accounted for by Medicaid and SNAP, 2022

Scatterplots are binned by 20 equal-count bins across the full range of county unemployment rates. In 2022, Connecticut replaced its eight historical county designations with nine new planning regions. This limited our ability to link Connecticut data across datasets, so we have excluded Connecticut counties from the results.
Source: Medicaid and SNAP shares of total county income data are from Teresa Lynch and Robert Manduca (2024). County unemployment from BLS, LAUS "Labor Force Data by County, 2022 Annual Averages."Get the dataCreated with Datawrapper