Six days into the SNAP suspension , the story around Connecticut is pretty much the same all over: lines of cars stretching down suburban streets, hundreds of people waiting in parking lots and lots of anxiety.

With no new Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program dollars going out for November, pending release by the Trump administration, the 360,000 Connecticut residents who qualify for the federal aid are turning to food pantries to put food on the table.

Bruce Hay of the Danielson Veterans Coffeehouse, who organizes a Foodshare mobile distribution in Putnam, saw 419 cars this week, up from 330 the week before. The line wound down the road and spilled out onto Route 44, clogging traffic.

United Way of Greater New Haven volunteers at the Hamden Mobile Pantry “served a record numbe

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