In the nation’s largest cities and its smallest towns, from its public housing projects to its community college campuses, Americans are struggling to fill pantries and dinner plates.

With the record-setting government shutdown dragging into its sixth week, more than 41 million people - most of whom are children, elderly or disabled - are still waiting on aid from the federal government’s largest anti-hunger program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP.

Days of legal and political wrangling have whipsawed those families, who are navigating a patchwork of public and private efforts to fill the gap. After initially refusing to use emergency funds to cover the shortfall, the Trump administration signaled Monday that it would send partial payments, an apparent c

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