EUGENE, Ore. (AP) Casey Beason, her boyfriend and 2-year-old daughter were facing an interminable Thanksgiving weekend in their cracker-box apartment on Roosevelt Boulevard while they waited for their Oregon Trail food stamp card to recharge. Congress let a recession years' food stamp boost expire in November, meaning less money to spend this month for every food stamp recipient in the nation. In Oregon, it means $84 million less spent on food over the coming year, according to state estimates. In the Beason's household? which consists of Beason, 24, her boyfriend Sean Brenton, 29, and their daughter, 2-year-old Journey it means the equivalent of $30 less for food per month. And it...
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