It's the Brian Laris show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone.

So we're mostly covering the elections on the show this week, right?

As many of you know, but not only today.

And I'll tell you why in a minute,

but on the election, we'll talk about jobs and wages as an issue in the New York City mayoral race and our 30 issues in 30 days election series. And we'll have a call in later for

any of you who are undecided in any race for New York City Mayor, for New Jersey Governor,

Nassau County Executive, or DA, Jim McGreevy, come back yes or no for Jersey City Mayor.

Any of the ballot questions you're undecided about?

We tried to clarify the housing-related ones in New York City yesterday with almost an hour of

yesterday's show.

I think it left some people

even more confused to be really candid because they're complicated issues. And so the call in will be

if you're undecided between two candidates or if like some people I've been hearing from,

you're undecided between one candidate or not voting at all. That's all coming up.

But we have to break from the election coverage to begin the program today, and we're putting it

first, because it looks like a hunger emergency is about to hit the United States. It sounds like

hyperbole, right? But as you may have heard, this is the latest thing

coming from a Trump administration decision on how to manage the government shutdown. The

supplemental nutrition assistance program, also known as SNAP, of course, or food stamps,

will be cut off from federal funds by this Saturday, November 1st.

That could leave 42 million Americans without their food benefits for the month of November.

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