Portland Summer Meal Providers

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Thu, 06/17/2010 - 12:00am
Summer Meal Providers

More than five hundred summer meal sites across Oregon serve neighborhoods where at least half the families have incomes below the federal poverty level and this summer, with a record number of Oregonians receiving public assistance, they expect to be busy.

Summer meal providers are also watching Congress for votes on the reauthorization- and possible expansion- of federal nutrition programs.

KBOO’s Sheya Rivard has more, in collaboration with the Oregon News Service…

 

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