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“We’re going to see a huge decline I think at our colleges, especially the community colleges, for spring term,” Bode said. “(Students) are terrified, absolutely terrified and I don’t blame them.”

U.S. Representative Suzanne Bonamici hosted a Friday roundtable at Portland State University to discuss food insecurity on Portland area campuses with students, faculty and staff.

Bonamici is set to introduce the “Opportunity To Address College Hunger Act” to Congress, which is meant to help students overcome barriers in accessing SNAP benefits.

Higher education administrators and students told U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici harrowing firsthand accounts about how hunger is gripping Oregon's college campuses and preventing degrees during a roundtable discussion at Portland State University on Friday, Jan. 13.

A pedestrian corridor project that seeks to connect downtown to Warrenton High School will receive nearly $1.4 million. The project was one of 15 that U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, an Oregon Democrat who represents the North Coast, had advocated for in the package.

Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici’s community projects were approved across the board in the most recent federal funding package, sending over $35 million to governments and nonprofits in Northwest Oregon