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WHAT WOULD HELP? Respondents were asked: “What would help improve your present situaon and make emergency food
assistance less necessary for your family?”
As in past HFA surveys, respondents focused on employment, living wages, aordable housing,
educaon and health care. These obvious and basic components of a successful, producve life
connue to remain out of reach for many Oregonians.
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More people are using food stamps … yet requests for emergency food remain high
Food Stamps/SNAP
Emergency Food Boxes
WHAT TO DO Oregon Food Bank is commied to helping Oregonians get back to work when the economy recovers. Food, housing
and job readiness are essenal to geng and keeping a job. Here are some examples of policy acons that would
move Oregon toward eliminang hunger and its root causes:
Feeding Hungry Oregonians
Oregon Hunger Response Fund (formerly GFFP), Farm Direct, Farm-to-School Housing Oregonians
State Homelessness Assistance Program, Emergency Housing Account
Encouraging Job Success
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), Employment-Related Day Care, Earned Income Tax Credit
For more informaon, see www.oregonfoodbank.org/Advocate/Take-acon
61% of respondents are currently receiving SNAP benets;
of those not receiving SNAP benets, the most c ommon
reason was not knowing if they qualied (22%)
When asked if they were able to meet their food
needs for the month when adding the emergency
food box to the rest of their food supply, 72% of
survey respondents said yes.
2012 Proles of Hunger and Poverty in Orego
& Annual Stascs: Execuve Summary This year’s Hunger Factors Assessment Survey reects the connuing fallout of massive job
losses caused by the Great Recession. The percentage of respondents reporng long-term
unemployment as a reason for seeking help stood at 27% — higher than the 22% reported 2008 at the very beginning of the recession. Even as the economy slowly improves, Oregon
Clark County, Washington families are facing familiar problems that have only goen worse
recovery will take a long me.
Last year, partner agencies provid
record 1,117,000 emergency food
an increase of 9%.
There were 435 pantries in the Ne
2011-2012. The number of food b
distributed range from 500 per ye
over 25,000 at several large urban
pantries. The food bank network amore pantries in the last four yea
the number of food boxes dis trib
increased by 41%, or 330,000 box
Food
Industry
Donations
54%
USDA11%
Food Drives
14%
Purchased
Product 21%
The average number of pantry visits per household rose sl ightly to about four mes per year.
Oregon Food Bank and the Network together
received 81.7 million pounds of food for
distribuon:
OFB and 4 Branches: 43.5 million
16 Regional Food Banks: 17.6 million
945 Partner Agencies: 20.6 million
ANNUAL STATISTICS 2011-2012
NETWORK SOURCES OF 500000
600000
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800000
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1000000
1100000
1200000
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EMERGENCY FOOD BOX DISTRIBUTION
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This report presents the results of 4601 surveyed households that received an emergency food box from 162
partner agencies of the Oregon Food Bank Network of Regional Food Banks. The Hunger Factors Assessment
surveys were sent to 176 food pantries throughout Oregon and Clark County, Washington for distribuon to
food box recipients over a three-week period during April 2012. Proles of Poverty and Hunger in Oregon
reveals their varied circumstances and gives voice to their stories. This is a summary of those ndings.
Many Oregonians need emergency food boxes
because they can’t aord to buy enough food. Infact, nearly half of recipients cite high food cost
as a reason for seeking food assistance.
Households Selected Situaons Contribung to Need for
Emergency Food Box 56%
Ran out of SNAP (50% in 2010)
48% High food costs (44% in 2010) 40% High cost of gasoline/fuel (29% in 2010) 35% High heang costs (30% in 2010)
27% Unemployed a long me
Nearly two-thirds of respondents (61%)
reported a drop in monthly income
during the past two years
Single female
parent with
children under 18
9%
Single male parent
with children
under 18
2%
Two
parents/adults
with children
under 18
27%
Grandparent(s) +
parent(s) +
children under 18
9%
Single personliving alone
21%
Single person
living with
housemate
7%
Two adults
(couple), no
children
14%
Other
11%
FOOD INSECURITY Respondents report that in the last twelve months, 84% did not have enough money to buy food –up from 69% in 2008
31% of respondents report worrying about where their next meal is coming from oen or always
36% of households with children responding said they had to c ut their children’s meals during the
year — 30% of those said this happened every month. In 2010, the percentage cung meals was
less (30%) but happened more oen (37%)
47% of households are families with children
34% of those receiving food are children
The average household size was 3.4 persons The state average from the 2010 Census was 2.5
20% of households included one or more veterans
REASONS WHY PEOPLE NEED EMERGENCY FOOD ASSISTANCE
HOUSEHOLDS
Percentage of resp
who needed to mo
last two years: To nd work:
22% (up from
Due to cost of
33% (up from
12% have received
noces in the last
(up from a low of
Full Time
(one job)
17%
Part Time
(one job)
13%
Fu
more th
Part Tim
1%
Disabled andunable to work
21%
Retired
12%
Staying home with
child or disabledperson
6%
Unemployed and
looking for work
25%
Unemployed and
not looking for
work
4%
FPL for a family of four = $23,050 (2012)
nearly 600,000 Oregon and Clark Co residents are at or below 100% FPL
Full me job at Oregon minimum wage = $18,304 (2012)
Median Household Income for Oregon = $46,816 (2011 American Community Survey)
Barriers to Employment:
29% of households with members looking for work did not have a car
Only 42% of respondents and spouse/partners report having some e ducaon beyond high sch
21% of households with children reported not working for lack of suitable child care
Households also reported at least one member: Disabled 28%
With a full-me job 27%
With a part-me job 21%
Rered 16%
* The pie represen
individuals or abou
age adults reporte
households.
HIGH COST OF HOUSING The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) characterizes
“aordable housing” as rent or mortgage that consumes no more than 30% of a
household income.
According to the American Community Survey, 90% of Oregon households who
reported less than $19,999 in income and re nng housing, paid more than 30% of
their income towards rent.
MOST ARE WORKING/RETIRED/DISABLED
All Month
9%
3 Weeks
35%
2 Weeks
31%
less than 2
Weeks
25%
SNAP (food stamps) provides only a poron of the food res
household and can quickly run out. Over 800,000 Oregonia
77,000 Clark Co residents were served by SNAP in Novemb
The average benet allotment was about $1.44 per meal if
over the enre month. The USDA esmates that eang a lo
nutrionally adequate diet of home-cooked meals for a mo
cost about $2.26 to $2.60 per meal for an adult.
Source: Oregon Department of Human Services, Ocial US
Plans, Washington State Department of Social and Health S
HOW LONG DO SNAP BENEFITS LAST?
Although 45% of households idened
employment income in the past year and 43% of
households have at least one person working:
74% of all households live below 100% of
the 2012 Federal Poverty Level (FPL) 34% of households have at least one person
looking for work (compared to 20% in 2008)
Executve Summary 20
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