The government shutdown has entered its third week. Besides the 800,000 government workers who have lost their paychecks and are now living on their savings or finding other ways to make ends meet, there is a larger group of people who will be directly, immediately, and critically affected by the shutdown in a few weeks if there is no resolution.
There are 40.3 million people in the United States who use the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) to help feed their families. These benefits for February will be paid out early, and then there will be no SNAP beginning in…
