The Oregon Food Bank Network releases annual statewide statistics
"High unemployment and growing foreclosures forced a record number of people in Oregon and Clark County, Wash., to seek emergency food in fiscal year 2008-09, Rachel Bristol, CEO of Oregon Food Bank, announced today."
Distribution of emergency food boxes throughout the Oregon Food Bank Network skyrocketed to historic highs, according to the OFB Networks' annual year-end report (July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009) Read the news release for an overview > http://www.oregonfoodbank.org/news/news_releases/view.html?id=235

OFB Network's 2008-09 statistics broadsheet (PDF)
http://www.oregonfoodbank.org/research_and_action/documents/broadsheet_2008-09.pdf

"Measuring the Effect of Food Stamps on Food Insecurity and Hunger"
Click here to read or download the report from the Journal of Nutrition:  http://jn.nutrition.org/cgi/content/full/137/2/307