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Develop many. he and other youth advocates have been your honoring congress and president obama to find a way to protect vital programs for low-income families. >> they'll be facing a lack of childcare. they'll be facing cuts to nutrition programs. they'll be facing cuts to positive early learning experiences of all of that in the short run undermines their long term development. >> reporter: in addition to head start, as the cuts take if he can, the white house said they could mean 4 million fewer meals for seniors who depend on the meals on wheels program. as many as 600,000 women and childr...

Price constraints lead to food that is actually less good for the person that's eating it. >> exactly. the food lunch program, it started actually way back. started in late 1800s, which was charity response to children that were hungry and they know -- they knew children showing up for school, they couldn't really focus, they weren't getting good grades. and then it was -- became a federal program under truman in '46. and i think we need to start looking at these programs as nutrition programs. they're not a handout. you know, we send kids to school, we give them books, we give them a desk, bu...

Illustration of the way price constraints lead to food that is actually good to the person eating it. >> exactly. the food program, it started in the late 1800s in response to children that were hungry. they knew children showing up for school couldn't focus and weren't getting good grades. and became a federal program under truman in '46. i think we need to start looking at these programs as nutrition programs. it's not a handout. you know, we send kids to school. we give them books, we give them a desk, but we don't give them food. so we're providing a meal now, but it's not a good meal. it'...

Billion to special education, and wic which is women and infant and children program which is $550 million cut, and also $15 billion decrease in the army, and $11 billion from the navy and $7.7 billion from the air force. >> for us in allentown, it is going to be significant. like i said before the break, we have flu shots and we are estimating 5,000 kids in pennsylvania will not be p aebl to get flu shots, because of the funds cut for health and human services. meals on wheels, because of the nutrition programs and the se seniors have to go out the fend for themselves. it is just basic. >> an...

Jobs and not paying their fair share of the load? why should the unemployed in ohio or anywhere have their unemployment benefits cut by 9% to 11%? you're talking about millions of americans who are living at the edge and our senior citizens who are going to have their nutrition programs cut in ohio. $750,0 $750,000. what are they going to do? give them fewer green beans? >> a lot of the programs slated for cuts are extremely popular with the public. their polling is very strong for the democrats. congressman ellison, what are you hearing from your constituents in minnesota? >> well, what i'm h...