What Is Wrong In Oregon?
Recently released numbers tell us that 43 million Americans are on food stamps; 43 million! That means that in the U.S. 14.1% of us are getting food stamps. And how does Oregon fare? In Oregon 749,498 Oregonians are on food stamps. That’s 19.6% of us. In the U.S. the year over year gain was 1.8%, in Oregon it’s 2.0%.
How do we compare with the west as a whole?
- Washington - 1,019,791 15.2% 1.8
- California - 3,521,881 9.5% 1.3
- Montana - 120,013 12.1% 1.4
- Utah - 268,216 9.7% 1.9
- Idaho - 219,271 14.0% 3.1
- Wyoming - 35,924 6.4% 0.6
- Colorado - 435,306 8.7% 1.1
- Nevada - 322,950 12.0% 2.5
- Arizona - Arizona 1,050,181 16.4% 1.0
- New Mexico - 399,454 19.4% 3.2
- Oregon - 749,498 19.6% 2.0
Only three states or districts are worse than Oregon: Mississippi, Tennessee and the District of Columbia. I get pissed every election season to see the same Democratic lawn signs in my neighborhood and to see the election returns in Multnomah County go heavily Democratic. I think as badly as our state is doing, just maybe you who vote for Dems might think, “Hey, something is not working. We need to change!” But you never do and this state continues to fall behind the progress of our neighbors and the nation.
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