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Times" giuliani travelled to hungary and ukraineb and participateling in a documentary seri series. more people will have to work for food stamps. it limits state's ability to wave existing work mandates and could result in 688,000 people losing their food support benefits. part of an effort toof overhaul s.n.a.p. more than 36 million receive these benefits right now. they can wave the work requirement where there is an insufficient number of jobs and giving states flex blts on local areas where there aren't the job to make it so you don't need the waver. this is is the national average.

The workforce. emily: his administration is announcing now new regulations to make it harder for able-bodied people without jobs to get benefits. the crackdown is expected to impact about 688,000 people, saving the government more than $5 billion over five years. steve: that's substantial. here with reaction is the founder and president of the center for urban renewal and education and author of pretty new book it's called "necessary noise" how donald trump inflames the culture war and why this is good for america. star parker joins us today from l.a. good morning to you. >> good morning, good...

Able to create waivers so people can qualify even if they don't meet the work requirements. under the new rule the only areas that could waive those standards would be those with an unemployment rate of 6% or higher, that is almost double the national average of 3.6%. this new change would kick 688,000 people off of snap. >> joining us now is the former united states secretary of agriculture and the vice president of the aspen institute, dan glichman. tieu for joining us, these work requirements already exist in most places why does restricting waivers have such a big impact on snap users, peo...

Hold them to. which is steadily at 20 hours a week. but when you look at the people in this -- this group. and it is -- it is a diverse group. but we -- it includes homeless individuals, folks struggling with chronic health conditions. it can be people in rural areas with no transportation. all of these folks are still being held to a standard of 20 hours a week of steady work. which just can be very difficult for them to sustain continuously. >> what is -- in theory, if you were supporting this idea, you'd say, all right. these 688,000 people should meet the standard. they'll meet the standar...

Yesterday, the trump administration finalized new work requirements for food stamp recipients that could cost nearly 700,000 americans their benefits. under the current rules for the supplemental nutrition assistance program, snap, that's what food stamps are called. snap program. most unemployed, childless adults between 18 and 49 years old are limited to three months of benefits over a three-year period unless they work at least 20 hours per week or participate in a qualifying job training program. however, states could seek temporary wavers from that time limit for areas with high unemploym...