Trump’s signature bill rewards Oregon for food stamp incompetence

The failure to accurately administer food stamps will bizarrely spare Oregon millions while other states must pony up next year.

 

By Penny Rosenberg

Oregon Journalism Project

For a good part of the past decade, Oregon’s food stamp program has had one of the highest error rates in the nation; that is, it distributed too many (or too few) benefits to low-income Oregonians.

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