Long-term unemployment, persistent underemployment and the high cost of food, gas, utilities and rent are forcing more and more people to seek emergency food.
The need for emergency food is unprecedented. For the second year in a row, the OFB Network distributed more than 1 million emergency food boxes in Oregon and Clark County, Wash.
Statewide emergency food box distribution increased 9 percent over the previous year, and has increased 41 percent since the beginning of the Great Recession in 2008.
