City's Food Pantries, Soup Kitchens Overwhelmed

Due to Congress' drastic cuts to food stamp benefits, 80% of New York City's food pantries and soup kitchens face increased demands for emergency food.

The impact of the food stamp cuts on the city's emergency food resources is widespread and ongoing. In September, 60% of the city's food pantries ran out of at least one kind of food, and at more than a third of them, hungry people had to be