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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. -
Lindsay Trapnell/Oregon Food BankThe number of people struggling to afford food more than doubled in some rural areas.
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More 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. -
The City of Talent permanently closed the doors of one of its only food pantries last week. -
For the first time ever, the Ashland School District will have free lunch programs during both the summer and upcoming school year. -
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. -
Oregon is set to participate in a new federal summer food program that could benefit nearly 300,000 kids across the state. -
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. -
In Oregon, about 10 percent of residents struggle with food insecurity. In the Rogue Valley, one nonprofit has found a unique way to help: a free farmers market, open to all. -
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. -
A legislative proposal that died in subcommittee would have helped 62,000 undocumented immigrants, including many farmworkers. -
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. -
With thousands of homeless and food insecure students, state legislators funded new programs to offer support to community colleges. CalMatters asked each college how it鈥檚 going.
