Tom Vilsack: “The reason I feel so strongly about this is last year during our award ceremony, I had to give out seven American flags…”

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

If you take SNAP and you reduce it or you eliminate it, you are obviously going to impact not just the poor families that are receiving it.

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

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.