More New Yorkers are running out of food to feed their families — an uncertainty that was exacerbated this month after an unprecedented freeze on federal food assistance left people in limbo for two weeks.

With Thanksgiving approaching and SNAP funds resumed, families are figuring out how to stock their fridges, pay their end-of-the-month bills and still enjoy holiday meals. A new report by the anti-poverty group Robin Hood and Columbia University last week found families with children facing food insecurity are short an average of $205 a week. The report found more than one in three adult New Yorkers and four out of 10 families with children need more money for food.

“The data confirms that we are in the midst of an affordability crisis where New Yorkers even well above the povert

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