{"id":372930,"date":"2025-11-12T02:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372930\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T02:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T02:38:12","slug":"chinese-new-yorkers-hit-hard-by-snap-interruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/372930\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Yorkers hit hard by SNAP interruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More than 300 people recently showed up at a pop-up Lower East Side food distribution,\u00a0planned in just three days by the Chinese-American Planning Council<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Among those there, Mei Yu Wang, 85, who has been on SNAP for more than a decade<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Wang is an American citizen and has been living in New York for more than two decades<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>She was forced to the distribution event \u2014 the first time she&#8217;s ever been to a food pantry \u2014\u00a0because of the interruption in SNAP benefits during the government shutdown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It was a last-minute event, planned in just three days by the Chinese-American Planning Council (CPC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s really this overall sentiment of fear,\u201d Marilla Li, director of programs at the CPC, said. \u201cTo just make sure that no matter what kind of limitations D.C. may set \u2014 that New York City and state are not going to leave any people behind,\u201d she said of the motivation behind the pop-up.<\/p>\n<p>Mei Yu Wang is among those worried about feeding herself. The 85-year-old says this is the first time she\u2019s ever been to a food pantry. She has been on SNAP, the largest federal food aid program, for more than a decade, and has lived in New York for more than two decades. Wang is originally from Shanghai.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m so worried without SNAP,\u201d Wang said through a translator in Mandarin. \u201cHow can I live without SNAP?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wang receives $280 a month through the program, and right now her EBT card has a balance of around $97. Some of the funds were saved over from last month.<\/p>\n<p>The CPC says it\u2019s currently serving around 9,000 community members across the city who rely on SNAP, like Wang.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think for them, it\u2019s the most worry,\u201d said Sharon So, wellness coordinator at CPC Hong Ning Housing for the Elderly. \u201cThey don\u2019t have enough money for the daily life. This [is] very important for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So works with many SNAP recipients, including Wang, through her work with CPC.<\/p>\n<p>Wang\u2019s been an American citizen for 18 years and is proud of that \u2014 and that she\u2019s never been to a food pantry. She\u2019d always been able to stretch the government assistance she receives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel the pressure,\u201d Wang said. \u201cSNAP gives me peace of mind so that I don\u2019t have to worry about not having food. With rising inflation, not having SNAP, it adds a lot of financial pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The CPC says it\u2019s going to continue to ramp up its food distribution efforts and lean on other partner organizations during a difficult time for many New Yorkers, including those within the Chinese community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the government shutdown continues to interrupt funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the 1.8 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":372931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,13565,7448,405,403,50,5226,5225,95983,5228,43431,5227,80,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,5284],"class_list":{"0":"post-372930","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-app-local-state-politics","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-noorulain-khawaja","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-ny-state-of-politics-blog","19":"tag-nyc","20":"tag-politics","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-vod"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115534411314106222","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=372930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}