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Than a year on the s.n.a.p. program, and i don't understand eric cantor. be willing to take food out of the mouths of hungry children. almost half of the s.n.a.p. recipients are children. are they supposed to go to work? are the mothers of an infant supposed to go to work and by the way there are strict work requirements already built into the program. i tell you, i did the s.n.a.p. program for a week, lived on $4.50 a day. it is not easy to do. i tell you, eric cantor, all of my colleagues who do go to church on sunday or synagogue on saturday or mosque on friday, all the religions and you br...

Program. >> it's true, the bill being considered in the house of representatives today would save $40 billion. but how would it save that $40 billion? by snatching food out of the hands of millions of neediest children and their families. >> reporter: but would it really? the food stamp program, or snap for supplemental nutrition assistance program, has expanded exponentially since president obama took office, 52% more households on food stamps as of last june than on average in the first year of the presidency. today there are 23 million american households on the snap program, that's more th...

My theory is those who are leading this charge against the food subsidy that keeps our people fed don't have enough contact with actual real americans. what your viewers, as you pointed out, need to know is that more than half of the jobs in the united states pay less than $34,000 a year. one-fourth of them pay less than $25,000. the fact is low wages are not allowing our families to eat. it's the s.n.a.p. program allowing low wage workers to feed their families. it seems that the politicians are totally disconnected from this reality. >> bill, i want to follow on that "the new york times" did...

>> that's the top 2% complaining about the income. >> he is a doctor. children who can't get the nutrition, seniors who can't eat properly, and by the way, 7% of those who are on the s.n.a.p. program are military veterans. this is not healthy for our country. >> how about we support the troops. >> not always. >> looking down the road, is this going to be the republicans shooting themselves in the foot? this is just the war on women and the attack on labor, and now picking on the poor. that's exactly what this is. this is picking on the most vulnerable in our society and let's keep in mind poli...

47 million people. that's how many americans rely on the supplemental nutrition program, more commonly known as s.n.a.p. in 2012. more than 72% of those recipients are families with children, yet that doesn't seem to faze eric cantor. in july he and his fellow republicans took s.n.a.p. out of the farm bill and the reductions they're currently working on for the s.n.a.p. program are down right frightening. according to reports a s.n.a.p. proposal cantor is working on would cut the program nearly $40 billion in ten years, more than double what was blocked in june, and almost nine times the amoun...