Tom Vilsack: “I think there is a real strong desire on the part of rural America to participate in helping reduce our dependence and…”

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

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