Tom Vilsack: “I care deeply about the people who live in rural communities.”

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

I think there are a lot of misconceptions about SNAP, and I think it stems from who people think are on SNAP.

States know who the recipients are because they administer the SNAP Program, and they also know where the jobs are.

If those budget cuts, even the most conservative budget cut, that is to say, putting it back to levels of several years ago, would result, not in an increase in Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC)…