As the government shutdown continues to interrupt funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the 1.8 million New Yorkers who depend on the program are worried they will not be able to feed their families.
More than 300 people recently showed up at a pop-up Lower East Side food distribution, just looking for the essentials to help them survive.
It was a last-minute event, planned in just three days by the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC)…