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For families across New York, building a healthy future is getting harder day by day. Soaring grocery prices are putting nutritious food out of reach, while food deserts compound the problem. More than two million New Yorkers already face food insecurity. For those living with diseases like diabetes, learning how to use food as medicine can mean the difference between health and hardship.

Those challenges are about to get significantly worse.

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On Oct. 1, New York lost $30 million in federal SNAP-Ed funding — money that helps families access and prepare healthy food. These cuts, buried in the most recent federal budget, will dismantle programs that work. Without immediate action from state leaders, low-income........

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