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Billion dollar decision that a lot of people to realize how much that impacts the wallet to folks at home. organizations like ours have to pick up a lot of the select. over the course of the last year, weve seen about a 70% increase in -- we are going to have with these additional snap cuts probably another potentially up to 20% more in need. >> a couple quick things to leave you with -- some states are trying to pass legislation to keep the minimum at a level so families who are impacted cannot...

In the second half of last year, before the s.n.a.p. cuts. >> were expecting to see a dramatic increase in the number we serve each month. >> reporter: like jody sprinkle, a single mom, waiting to find out how much her s.n.a.p. benefits will drop. >> its going to hurt. one thing, its going to hurt. >> reporter: one thing, the nonprofits say they may have to ration food or limit selection so theres more to go around. >> if our work cant make the demand that means more and more kids will go to bed...

The $8 billion in snap cuts, is that just the price of bipartisanship in this day and age? >> well, alex, im so glad to have the opportunity to really talk to you about this because weve been in delicate negotiations for months and months and i couldnt speak to this until we got it done. first of all, a five-year farm bill means we are protecting food assistance for 47 million people in this country from any cuts because of a government shutdown by the republicans or any other bad policies in th...

Something both sides will agree on but at the same time build crop subsidies for farmers, many of whom dont need them. it would lock in generous subsidies at a time when farm incomes have reached the highest level in four decades. chuck grassley, a republican budget hawk, who advocates cuts to both snap and wealthy farmers scalded those in his party who cheer the s.n.a.p. cuts but willing to give farm subsidies a pass. reforming food stamps yet coddling millionaires, he wrote, why should staunch...

This is what rush had to say. >> the pope here has now gone beyond catholicism. he went further than previous comments, attacking the idolatry of money. this is just pure marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope. >> now i know that he was the godfather of conservatism. i didnt know he was the interpreter of theology. >> rush rim baugh has a problem with his pope. he probably really has a problem with jesus christ. he spent his whole life talking about the need to fight hunger and inequality. ...

Something we can cut to save the deficit and that kind of washington talk versus the actual reality on the ground huch need there is? >> i think oftentimes we get caught up in numbers and policies and programs and dont actually realize there are people behind these numbers that were all talking about. for an average family of four, $36 per month cut earlier this month is a tremendous impact on the ability of families to put food on the table, and we know this is on the heels of a recession where...

Theyre going to go plowing right back into the economy, to the small business, to the grocery stores. >> so they can then hire another -- >> do you agree that weve got to start prioritizing our spending some time -- >> yes, i would say we prioritize feeding children! coming up next, the faces behind the figures from the s.n.a.p. cuts. well meet just a few of the 47 million people in the crosshairs. and if you missed it last night, dont worry, because were going to show you how scandalous thing...

Vegetables, certainly no protein, difficult to get eggs, difficult to get milk. this is really an extreme and ridiculous response from a nation that has been known around the world to be the great, if you will, humanitarian. and here we are with families, 47 million living in poverty. republicans offering a nightmarish bill of $39 billion to $40 billion in snap cuts. and today $5 billion are lost. families are losing $36 a day. i will be going to my food banks today, target hunger and the housto...

Massachusetts second district jim mcgovern. congressman, thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> a lively day ill say euphemistically, a live 24 hours on capitol hill. lets talk about s.n.a.p. cuts. i was, i guess, in some way heartened at least 15 republicans understood the fact this is a terrible, terrible bill. given the fact that of the 254 counties where food stamp recipients doubled in the last five years, mitt romney won 213 of them. to say this was not a problem that the repub...

The study also found that the s.n.a.p. cuts in the farm bill again, a tiny fraction of the cuts you want, would increase the poverty rate. that is not exactly lifting people out of poverty. and that increase in hunger and poverty would lead directly to an increase in diseases like diabetes and heart disease in adults and asthma and cognitive impairment in children. tell me, congressman, how exactly is that improving pee i peoples lives? and your plan doesnt even save money. the increase in diabe...