Every dollar of SNAP benefits generates $1.84 in the economy in terms of economic activity. If people are able to buy a little more in the grocery store, someone has to stock it, package it, shelve it, process it, ship it. All of those are jobs. It's the most direct stimulus you can get in the economy during these tough times.

What Republicans have done in my view is that they are systematically dismantling a sense of community in America.

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

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