Food insecurity in California

• early 4.4 million Californians lack reliable access to sufficient food, including 644,300 seniors and 1,638,430 children.
• According to 2017 data, roughly 1.6 million Californians are not getting help from the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (known as CalFresh), even though they are eligible. That means 28% of people with poverty-level budgets didn’t receive the food assistance they needed.
• At California State University campuses, 5% of students are getting food stamps even though one in every four is eligible.
• For seniors in California, 19% percent get the assistance, compared with 42% of seniors nationally.

Source: Sacramento Bee: Hundreds of thousands in California miss out on CalFresh food stamps