Tom Vilsack: “Seventy-five percent of our rental units could potentially get out of the program without access to vouchers”

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

Well, the House Agriculture appropriations talked about an 18 percent cut to our budget, so you can do the math.

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

I think you two gentlemen have laid out a plan that addresses the fundamental weakness of our current farm policy.