Families are taking a hit as pandemic aid ends, inflation continues. Census survey shows people struggle to pay for food even before pandemic-era SNAP benefits end next month. Forty million people in the U.S. are having difficulty affording household expenses, and a little more than 25 million people say they sometimes or often do not have enough to eat, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent Household Pulse survey data. (kansasreflector.com)