This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project , a nonprofit newsroom covering the state.

Federal funding for SNAP will run out Nov. 1 if the federal government remains shut down, leaving more than 757,000 Oregonians without the support they rely on to buy groceries.

“Older adults and people with disabilities could face impossible choices between groceries, rent and medicine,” said Oregon Food Bank public policy advocate Sammi Teo.

In Oregon, the average Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program, or SNAP, benefit for a single person is $6 a day. SNAP benefits to Oregon are about $140 million a month, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data .

A study by the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ranked Oregon the third-most-dependent state on

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