While 25% of income should be spent on food, 14% is spent on food with costs of housing, child care, health care, transportation and other items using up far more income.17 47% of households with children experienced difficulty affording needed food for themselves and their families in 2009, a 15% increase since 2003.18 In the past year, 4 in 10 blacks and 3 in 10 Latinos in New York City either l