Tom Vilsack: “If you raise the minimum wage, you would reduce the SNAP population by a significant amount.”

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

It will if it is adequately funded.

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

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