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Senate Bill 611 would establish the Food for All Oregonians program, with the goal of helping people who can’t get federal food assistance through SNAP because of their immigration status.

In Oregon, food insecurity rates rose sharply to 12% from 2021-2023, an increase from 9.2% from 2018-2020, according to the USDA report. That means more than 400,000 people – including many of the state’s children – were food insecure, or didn’t know where their next meal was coming from.

Oregonians who qualify for food assistance programs and who had to throw away food because of power outages that followed this week’s ice storm can request replacement Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefits.

It’s the first permanent boost to the buying power of food stamps since the 1970s.

Approximately 14.6 percent of Oregonians struggle to feed themselves.