Tom Vilsack: “Well, we will----be happy to help them if you give us the permission and the capacity.”

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

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

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

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