Angelo Arredondo Baca remembers benefiting from government food assistance growing up in Salem. With a father who was a full-time farm worker, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, ensured that there was food on the table for him and his siblings.

“I don’t think I would be here if it wasn’t for SNAP,” he said during a Wednesday roundtable with U.S. Rep. Andrea Salinas, D-Oregon.

Now, he works with immigrant families to improve access to higher education. In his job, he hears concerns from parents who are wary that those same support systems may disappear.

Federal cuts from a Republican-backed budget domestic policy bill passed July 4 are projected to reduce benefits for more than 700,000 people who receive SNAP in Oregon, with most impacts taking effect in the next t

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