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Get this money added to their snap benefit to ensure they are having healthy meals. i was in a classroom for over a decade. i know what it's like when kids return after a long weekend and haven't had a good food weekend. >> so you know what it looks like. you were also a snap recipient at some point. talk to me about what people maybe don't get about why this is important from your experience both as a recipient but also inside the school system. >> this is deeply personal for me. i think people don't get who snap beneficiaries are. when i was a young mom i worked two jobs and was going to sch...

Economy. there are great programs where if you are a snap recipient and you are shopping athe a farmer' market, you are getting double the amount of your benefit and it goes directly to farmers. there us a multiplier effect. it creates $1.75 of economic activity for every $1 spent through the snap program. we need nutrition. that's really the crux of this here. children, when they go to school, if they have proper breakfast, they actually can learn. we are talking about seniors and people with disabilities. this is the way they actually feed themselves. we are talking about 1.5 million veteran...

Abled bodied adults who don't have to be required to either look for work or be in a position where they're getting trained to be prepared for work. >> i looked at second thessalonians 3: 10, for even when we were with you, we gave you this rule. the one who is i'm willing to work, not eat. >> always good to throw in a little faith, isn't it? so the republicans can justify their position. because they're so concerned that the average s.n.a.p. recipient receives about $133 a month in benefits. let's break that down. it's a little more than $4 a day. break it down again. it's $1.40 per meal. in ...

Food stamps. what's now called the supplemental nutritional assistance program. a family of three with snap benefits makes under $1600 a month. 71% of all benefits go to families with children. and the average benefit is $133 a month. some states are higher. at the top hawaii 214. the low 116 minnesota. those allowances grew by 50% in the last decade. some of the number of recipients topping 47 million even though a recession has happened while the number on welfare that went down. what's the average snap recipient buy? usda say there's four food types. dessert like items. pre-prepared foods. ...

Gave you this rule. the one who is unwilling to work shall not eat. >> let's consider the source. that was stephen fincher of tennessee. this guy really is the poster child for hypocrisy. he is one of the biggest recipients of farm bill handouts in all of tennessee history. from 1999 to 2012, his farm took over, took in $3.4 million in farm subsidies. he took over $70,000 in government handouts alone and it is important to point out, these are direct payments based on the amount of land fincher owns. he could grow no crops and still get his government handout. so let's do a little math here, f...