Tom Vilsack: “The budget presented to you will achieve the President's vision for the middle class by restoring the link between hard…”

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

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.

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

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