Good morning, Chicago.

Joanna Martínez already spends much of her day worrying about the rising cost of food and how she can afford enough healthy meals to feed her two daughters.

Now the single mother, who lives in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, is terrified as she braces for an anticipated loss of federal food aid from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, commonly known as SNAP or food stamps.

Martínez, 36, is one of more than 40 million Americans poised to lose their SNAP benefits on Saturday as the second-longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history drags on.

“I’m trying to come up with a plan,” she said. “But I’m still scared.”

The U.S. Department of Agriculture posted a message Monday affirming that no federal food assistance will be distributed after th

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