A worker on the front lines of helping Oregonians losing SNAP benefits

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : What makes you come to work and show up every day to do this work? Stevens: I'm someone who myself benefited from the SNAP and Medicaid programs.
50% : I just want to stress that Medicaid or the Oregon Health Plan, as it's known in Oregon, is not affected by the shutdown and there have not been any cuts to it so far.
47% : Yes, we have had some concerns about if Medicaid will be impacted.
41% : Are you getting calls about other social safety net programs and other ways that people are getting squeezed from the federal shutdown?

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