Home News New York City Can’t Allow ... New York City Can’t Allow ‘Epidemic of the Working Hungry’ to Continue Posted on November 30, 2015 by Jacquelyn Simone What is our city coming to? Or more accurately, what has the world’s greatest city become? Does New York still deserve such a title in the face of what has been called an “epidemic of the working hungry”? Just in time for the holidays, a new report by the New York City Coalition Against Hunger leaves no doubt that our city is great for some — but not so much for the majority of its people.