Commodity Supplemental Food Annual Participation

COMMODITY SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PROGRAM: TOTAL PARTICIPATION
Data as of June 26, 2008
State	FY 2003	FY 2004	FY 2005	FY 2006	FY 2007

Alaska	1,293	2,016	2,441	2,433	2,077
Arizona	17,082	17,509	17,679	15,825	14,355
California	47,382	52,923	55,362	54,687	53,098
Colorado	21,188	21,769	20,228	18,844	17,029
District of Columbia	8,236	8,200	8,124	7,121	6,765
Illinois	14,856	16,578	16,439	14,463	13,676
Indiana	1,092	3,522	4,737	4,358	4,223
Iowa	4,346	4,136	4,135	3,781	3,337
Kansas	5,904	6,145	6,148	5,571	5,069
Kentucky	8,857	17,682	16,697	15,814	15,611
Louisiana	77,164	85,397	83,711	48,387	64,327
Michigan	83,032	83,244	83,243	80,147	77,258
Minnesota	13,352	14,573	15,079	14,505	14,254
Mississippi	5,916	7,703	7,459	7,120	6,963
Missouri	5,922	10,306	10,030	9,730	9,222
Montana	6,536	6,748	6,950	6,878	6,722
Nebraska	13,614	13,792	14,201	13,020	12,520
Nevada	2,286	5,109	6,437	5,830	5,909
New Hampshire	7,707	7,796	7,731	6,919	6,967
New Mexico	20,360	20,393	18,082	17,260	16,230
New York	36,284	34,622	33,090	31,719	30,314
North Carolina	1,224	1,454	1,362	1,249	1,182
North Dakota	2,588	3,032	2,982	2,881	2,774
Ohio	6,496	13,632	13,197	12,493	13,639
Oregon	969	1,007	1,226	1,512	1,291
Pennsylvania	7,942	15,186	15,234	14,945	14,489
South Carolina	2,150	3,389	3,952	3,683	3,721
South Dakota	2,157	3,907	3,703	3,480	3,422
Tennessee	15,556	15,050	14,647	13,721	13,315
Texas	7,918	12,857	13,199	12,404	14,721
Vermont	4,954	4,705	4,555	4,005	3,625
Washington	2,357	2,416	2,313	2,307	2,824
Wisconsin	3,947	4,918	5,039	5,260	5,147
TOTAL	455,659	521,714	512,433	462,349	466,075
If a State operated for less than a full year, its annual average does not include non-operating months (e.g., if it operated for two month, the annual participation sum is divided by two rather than twelve). Consequently, the sum of the States exceeds the Total for most years. In FY 2005, Louisiana participation is an 8 month average; there was no activity in September due to Hurricane Katrina. In FY 2006, its participation gradually rose from under 6,000 in the initial month to 62,000 during the last two months. CSFP was originally a food distribution alternative to the WIC Program which provided supplemental food packages to women, infants and children. It began serving elderly persons on a pilot basis in FY 1982. By FY 1999, most participants were elderly. FY 2007 data are preliminary; all data are subject to revision.