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When you think about it, of all the people on food stamps who work, you can have two adults working in a family at minimum wage jobs and still not earn enough for the s.n.a.p. benefit. we have to talk about lifting people up, not putting people down. this is a fight worth having. this should not be a partisan fight. those of us who fought yesterday against these cutbacks, we need to regroup and come back. they are not going to give up. look, if government stands for anything, it ought to stand for the most vulnerable in this country. to cut a food program by $40 billion and tell 3.8 million pe...

Work, in fact, work full-time and still can't afford enough within their budget to eat. this is part of why it's so important. not just to feed people but because an economic stimulus effect, right. >> when you get a snap benefit, you have to spend it on food. that has an economic impact on our economy. it also, food is produced by farmers. it helps our farmers. this -- the way people try to pit farmers versus snap, i think, it's a false choice. look, the bottom line is, we have 50 million people in america who are hungry. 17 million are children. the fact that congress would vote to cut $20.5...

Young children every day, and i don't understand how people can sit and sleep, knowing that there's a child somewhere 8 years old, 4 years old, worrying about, is mom going to eat? is dad going to eat? and what about children with medical disabilities who can't eat certain things, don't have access to it, have to travel to get to it? that's a whole different everything. >> the average snap benefit per household is $278, for an individual, $133 a month. that means by many recipients by the middle of the month they have run out of the snap benefits to purchase food. marrian, i want to talk about...

Food stamps even people at the coalition. >> you are prescribed you would like to apply for food stamps. >> bird believes those don't want to go to a government office to find out if they are eligible so his team set up shop at the supermarket. >> 50 percent of our customers are using the snap benefit. >> ivan is the store manager. >> we feel it's a positive thing for the community. >> another part of the effort to reduce the stigma of food stamps was to get rid of the stamps all together. the government benefit is now electronically delivered via ebp cards. they work just like any debit card....

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