Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009
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Oregon among states with highest incidence of food insecurity and hunger
Both the rates of “food
insecurity and hunger” con-
tinue to rise in Oregon, ac-
cording to Oregon Food Bank
and Oregon Hunger Task
Force using U.S. Dept. of
Agriculture (USDA) data.
An average of 6.6 per-
cent of Oregon households
(some 95,000 households per
year) between January 2006
and December 2008 experi-
enced times when they were
hungry, but did not eat be-
cause there was not enough
money for food. That com-
pares to 3.9 percent in 2003-
05 -- a statistically significant
2.7 percent increase.
These households fall
into a group technically
called “very low food secu-
rity,” but better known as
“hunger,” the agencies said.
These households ate less,
skipped meals or sometimes
went without food for whole
days.
Oregon is now among
the five states with the high-
est hunger rate, in the com-
pany of Mississippi, Maine,
Oklahoma and Missouri.
Only Mississippi, at 7.4 per-
cent, had a higher hunger
percentage than Oregon.
A larger group, 13.1 per-
cent of Oregon households,
experienced food insecurity,
meaning that these house-
holds lack consistent access
to adequate amounts of nutri-
tious food. That compares to
11.9 percent during the 2003-
05 period -- a 1.2 percent
increase.
Nationally, 49 million
Americans, including nearly
17 million children, lived in
households that were food
insecure in 2008 -- up from
36.2 million during 2007 and
33.2 million in 2000.
Oregon’s rates of both
hunger and food insecurity
increased significantly since
last year’s report.
“These alarming num-
bers confirm the severe hu-
man toll of this recession and
what the Oregon Food Bank
Network has been seeing for
the past two years,” said Ra-
chel Bristol, CEO, Oregon
Food Bank. “Oregon has
been hit especially hard.”
The Oregon Food Bank
Network (OFBN) distributed
66.2 million pounds of food in
2008-09 -- the highest amount
distributed by the statewide
network in a single year.
Distribution of emer-
gency food boxes throughout
OFBN increased 14 percent --
from 786,000 to 897,000 --
during fiscal year 2008-09,
according to Bristol. In many
parts of the state, emergency
food distribution increased
more than 20 percent. And 36
percent of those eating meals
from emergency food boxes
are children.
“Hunger for children
isn’t merely uncomfortable,
it’s dangerous,” said Bristol.
“Children who are hungry get
sick more often, have more
trouble learning in school and
may face long-term health
consequences.”
Unemployment Cited
“Oregon’s rise in hunger
mirrors Oregon’s rise in un-
employment,” according to
Patti Whitney-Wise, execu-
tive director, Oregon Hunger
Task Force. “While we are
boosting programs and emer-
gency food efforts, wages
aren’t keeping up with family
needs.
“We need long-term so-
lutions to help families get
ahead.”
It is important to note
that the USDA numbers re-
flect the state of hunger in
2008. Since then, the econ-
omy has weakened signifi-
cantly, and there are likely
many more people struggling
with hunger than this report
states.
“P r e s i d e n t B a r a c k
Obama has made it a goal to
end childhood hunger by
2015, and these numbers
highlight the urgency of
achieving this goal,” said Jim
Weill, president of the Food
Research and Action Center
(FRAC), a national anti-
hunger nonprofit that ana-
lyzed the new USDA data.
‘An Achievable Goal’
Oregon Food Bank and
Oregon Hunger Task Force
joined FRAC in agreeing that
ending childhood hunger by
2015 is an achievable goal. It
is one, they said, that can be
reached by strengthening the
federal child nutrition pro-
grams, improving income
supports like refundable tax
credits, and ensuring that all
people can access nutritious
food at home, at school or
child-care settings and in their
communities.
Bristol notes that Con-
gress is preparing to take up
reauthorization of the child
nutrition programs next year.
“This is a chance to im-
prove the programs so more
low-income children can par-
ticipate,” she said. “We can
end hunger by lifting up chil-
dren and their parents.”
Each year, the Census
Bureau measures “food inse-
curity” through a series of
household survey questions
about the ability to obtain
enough food for an active,
healthy life for all members.
To report “food insecu-
rity” in each state, USDA
uses three-year averages to
compensate for limited sam-
ple sizes and give a better
estimate of the number of
households experiencing hun-
ger thus the state data are an
average for 2006-08.
The new data reinforces
recent findings from a re-
search study conducted by
Feeding America, the na-
tion’s leading hunger-relief
organization of which OFBN
is a member. The data reflect
a dramatic increase in re-
quests for emergency food
assistance. Conducted in Sep-
tember, the Feeding America
study shows uniformly that
its network of food banks
witnessed an average in-
creased need of nearly 30
percent this year.