Tom Vilsack: “This is the first time in 45 years that this fundamental basis of the SNAP program has been reviewed.”

If you authorize it, if Congress creates the opportunity for this, we will be more than happy to utilize that program.

It’s very direct, and I think it speaks significantly and centrally to the challenges that many Iowa farmers face today.

If you raise the minimum wage, you would reduce the SNAP population by a significant amount.

If you make hunger the number one priority, then I can guarantee you that governors will have to listen, corporate CEOs will have to listen, nonprofits will have to listen.