Currently, 1 in 4 Oregonians are food insecure. Pre-COVID, Oregon’s general population food insecurity rate reflected that 1 in 10 Oregonians were struggling to put food on the table. The rates of food insecurity and hunger (or “very low food security”) in Oregon had been steadily declining and dropped below the US average by 2019. According to a December 2020 report from Professor Mark Edwards at Oregon State University, rates of food insecurity and hunger in Oregon more than doubled in 2020, with an estimated 1 million Oregonians experiencing food insecurity. Meanwhile, due in large part to historical and current systemic injustices, disparities of experience of hunger persist. Communities of color and single mothers experience hunger at rates 2 to 3 times higher than the general population