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The California food banks association warns of rising food insecurity, but its pleas for more state aid face a tough slog next year due to the projected budget deficit.

Medi-Cal and other programs are testing food prescriptions that advocates say could improve chronic conditions, lower health care costs and reduce hunger.

California is full of food, yet scarred by hunger.

As extra pandemic benefits end, food banks say that they’re becoming long-term supermarkets for Californians facing food insecurity. Several bills to boost CalFresh are before the Legislature, but the state budget deficit may get in the way.

Many Republicans object to the spending, saying the food bank is too involved in partisan issues

For nearly three years, an increase in federal aid has allowed California to issue higher-than-usual amounts in food stamps. That ends in April.

The need for food assistance is at a near-record high in Oregon, and food bank managers are sounding the alarms about rising hunger across the state.

Outreach for survivors of the Mill Fire in Weed has been made more difficult by an ongoing lawsuit against the company alleged to have caused the fire.

A large food bank in Coos County that feeds hundreds of families is struggling to find a new space to operate out of now that they have to move.

High food and gas prices are squeezing working families, sending some to food pantries for the first time. But providers are struggling with high costs, fewer donations and supply chain woes.

Across the country, supply chain issues are causing shortages in food. And Oregon is no exception.