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Crystal Ligori/OPBHunger rates plummeted in Oregon in the years leading up to the pandemic, but then COVID hit and during the following two years, the number of Oregonians struggling to put food on the table rose, a recently released Oregon State University study found. -
Crystal Ligori/OPBMore Oregonians were food insecure, couldn鈥檛 afford groceries or outright skipped meals in 2023, compared to 2020. That鈥檚 according to an annual U.S. Department of Agriculture household food security report released Wednesday.
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A decades-long relationship between the Oregon Food Bank and local Jewish synagogues has been fractured after the Food Bank issued a statement in April condemning violence by the Israeli military and Hamas. -
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鈥檙e 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. -
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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.
