Oregon Public Broadcasting

Oregon has a worsening hunger problem. 

The federal Agriculture Department’s new numbers put the hunger rate here at 5.5 percent, among the top five most hungry states. 

Patti Whitney-Wise is the director of the Oregon Hunger Relief Task Force.  I asked her what that 5-percent hunger rate means.

Patti Whitney-Wise is the director of the Oregon Hunger Relief Task Force.  She was talking about new federal statistics ranking Oregon among five states with the worst hunger problems.