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

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.

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

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

There is no doubt that there are many, many, many working poor, working poor with an emphasis on working.