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WEATHER
East Oregonian
REGIONAL CITIES
Forecast
FRIDAY
TODAY
SATURDAY
Partly sunny and
pleasant
Pleasant with
clouds and sun
74° 48°
77° 52°
SUNDAY
A shower in the
afternoon
Warmer with
clouds and sun
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
71° 56°
80° 58°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
83° 57°
80° 51°
PENDLETON
TEMPERATURE
LOW
79°
77°
98° (1974)
51°
52°
35° (1910)
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Corvallis
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Records
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79°
99° (1933)
Albany
71/50
Eugene
71/48
TEMPERATURE
HIGH
86° 61°
Spokane
Wenatchee
69/47
75/51
Tacoma
Moses
66/48
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 77/48
66/43
64/50
65/47
76/48
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
66/50
75/52 Lewiston
79/48
Astoria
75/51
64/51
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
69/53
Pendleton 67/41
The Dalles 80/51
74/48
75/53
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Salem
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71/52
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Seattle
67/53
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John Day
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Ontario
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Coastal Oregon: A shower across the north
today; sunshine in central parts. Clouds,
then sun in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Partly sunny
today; pleasant. Partly cloudy tonight. Times
of clouds and sun tomorrow.
Western Washington: Times of clouds and
sun today; a passing shower at the coast.
Partly cloudy tonight.
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Eastern Washington: Clouds and sun today.
Partly cloudy tonight. Intervals of clouds
and sun tomorrow.
Cascades: Partly sunny today. Partly
cloudy tonight. Intervals of clouds and sun
tomorrow.
Northern California: Low clouds followed
by sunshine at the coast today; mostly
sunny elsewhere.
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Courtesy USDA
A report from Save the Children places Oregon 24th
among states in terms of how its rural children are far-
ing economically.
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in four years, Oregon ranks
48th for high school gradua-
tion rates.
And the state ranked 39th
in 2015 for child food inse-
curity, with about 22.5 per-
cent of Oregon kids facing
malnutrition.
But that’s a slight
improvement, as the state’s
overall rate of food insecurity
continues to decline, accord-
ing to an October study from
Oregon State University.
“The strength of the Ore-
gon economic recovery
appears to have finally had
a positive effect on reduc-
ing food insecurity,” wrote
Mark Edwards, a profes-
sor of sociology at OSU’s
School of Public Policy, in
an October report. “These
positive trends being noted,
Oregon continues to have
a food insecurity rate that
is statistically significantly
higher than the rate for the
U.S. as a whole, representing
about 560,000 Oregon adults
and children in food insecure
households.”
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National Summary: Showers will affect northern New England, while storms riddle the
Southeastern states today. Locally severe weather may occur over the northern Plains.
Spotty storms will affect the northern Rockies.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 111° in Needles, Calif.
Low 25° in West Yellowstone, Mont.
NATIONAL CITIES
Today
Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
Little Rock
Los Angeles
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Louisville
87
Memphis
94
Miami
86
Milwaukee
77
Minneapolis
79
Nashville
91
New Orleans
88
New York City
84
Oklahoma City
94
Omaha
97
Philadelphia
83
Phoenix
109
Portland, ME
74
Providence
80
Raleigh
89
Rapid City
95
Reno
92
Sacramento
91
St. Louis
90
Salt Lake City
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San Diego
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San Francisco
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Seattle
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Tucson
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Senate panel OKs farm bill;
House wants work provisions
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — A
Senate panel approved a
modest, bipartisan rewrite
of federal farm and nutrition
programs on Wednesday,
sidestepping a fight for now
but setting up a clash with
House Republicans intent
on beefing up work require-
ments for food stamps.
The legislation, approved
by a bipartisan 20-1 vote,
would renew farm safe-
ty-net programs such as
subsidies for crop insur-
ance, farm credit, and land
conservation and extend
the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program, widely
known as food stamps,
which helps feed more than
40 million people.
It also includes provi-
sions known as the Timber
Innovation Act, sponsored
by Oregon Sen. Jeff Merk-
ley, which would create a
new research and devel-
opment program under the
USDA for mass timber
and calls for studying the
environmental footprint of
wood building construction
while analyzing potential
impacts on wildlife.
The panel’s approval
comes as farm country is
struggling with low prices
and a potential trade war
that could depress farm
commodities prices further.
The legislation was
drafted along traditionally
bipartisan lines to ease its
passage through the closely
divided Senate, where Dem-
ocrats have significant influ-
ence over most legislation.
Chairman Pat Roberts,
R-Kan., worked closely
with top panel Democrat
Debbie Stabenow of Mich-
igan to produce the legisla-
tion, which aims to reduce
fraud in the food stamp pro-
gram but avoids controver-
sial efforts to impose stricter
work requirements and pro-
visions to restrict eligibility.
“We’ve put our political
differences aside,” Stabe-
now said.
The House measure,
which failed last month
because of an intra-GOP
battle over immigration,
promises greater job train-
ing opportunities for recip-
ients of food stamps, a top
priority for House lead-
ers like Speaker Paul Ryan.
Democrats say the House
measure is poorly designed
and would drive 2 million
people off of the program.
A re-vote is likely in com-
ing weeks.
The current food and
farm bill expires at the end
of September and Roberts
acknowledged that enacting
the legislation this year will
be difficult. A short-term
extension is a likely option.
“To those who say pass-
ing a farm bill in this envi-
ronment is a daunting task,
I say together we can get it
done,” Roberts said. “We
must embrace the attitude of
our producers — optimism
and ingenuity.”
The measure includes
legislation by Senate Major-
ity leader Mitch McCo-
nnell, R-Ky., that would
legalize the production of
industrial hemp, which is
generally barred because
hemp is related to mari-
juana, even though it con-
tains little of that drug’s
key psychoactive ingredi-
ent, known as THC. McCo-
nnell secured a hemp pilot
program in the most recent
farm bill in 2014 and views
the crop as a good replace-
ment for tobacco.
McConnell hopes to
bring the measure to the
Senate floor before the July
4 recess.
The measure would
limit subsidy payments to
farmers earning less than
$700,000, down from
$900,000. It seeks to block
states from gaming the food
stamp program to win addi-
tional funding, and reautho-
rizes two subsidy programs
that form the backbone of
the farm safety net.
Sen. Charles Grass-
ley, R-Iowa, was the sole
“nay” vote. He objected to
the measure’s hemp provi-
sion, saying it should have
been handled within the
Judiciary Committee that he
chairs.
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poverty, they are at higher
risk of experiencing diffi-
culties later in life — hav-
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health, becoming teen par-
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and facing limited unem-
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Overall, Oregon ranks
22nd among states for the five
indicators of child poverty
that the study synthesizes.
Save the Children used
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responding to events that
“end” childhood: infant mor-
tality, malnutrition, dropping
out or delaying graduation
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Oregon has the nation’s
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Klamath Falls
77/43
SALEM — More than 20
percent of children in rural
Oregon live in poverty, a
new study finds.
A report from Save the
Children places Oregon 24th
among states in terms of how
its rural children are faring
economically.
About 21.6 percent of
children in Oregon’s rural
areas live in poverty, while
16.1 percent of children in
Oregon’s urban areas were
considered impoverished,
according to the study.
Nationally, 14.1 million,
or 19.5 percent, of Ameri-
can kids live in poverty, a
rate that exceeds most other
countries in the Organiza-
tion for Economic Cooper-
ation and Development, a
37-member group of nations
with advanced economies.
Researchers used data
from the 2016 American
Community Survey, pub-
lished by the U.S. Census
Bureau, to determine rural
and urban poverty rates
among kids.
The Census Bureau
defines the poverty threshold
in 2016 as an annual income
of $24,339 for a family of
four with two children.
In most states, rural child
poverty is higher than pov-
erty among children in
urban areas, consistent with
a decades-long trend in the
U.S., the Save the Children
study found.
“Growing up in poverty is
one of the greatest threats to
healthy child development,”
the study states. “When
young children grow up in
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Newport
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