Tom Vilsack: “the cost of inaction, I think, is unacceptable.”

There is not enough money in that program.

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

An inclusive agriculture and rural life must be part of a shift to a bottom-up, middle-out system.

we have had a record year in farm income in the last 2 years; however, that bounty has not been fully shared by all farmers