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The lack of access to proper nutrition is not only fueling obesity, it is leading to food insecurity and hunger among our children. ↗


— Tom Vilsack


#among #children #food #hunger #insecurity

Although they are some of the hardest working folks I know, rural Americans earn, on average, $11,000 less than their urban counterparts each year. And they are more likely to live in poverty. ↗


— Tom Vilsack


#average #counterparts #each #earn #folks

But It doesn't make sense for us to have a continued reliance on a supply of oil where whenever there is unrest in another part of the world, gasoline prices jump up. We need a renewable fuel industry that's more than corn-based, of course, and there are a whole series of great opportunities here. ↗


— Tom Vilsack


#continued #course #fuel #gasoline #gasoline prices

Democrats have always historically referred to our families as working families, and I have sort of changed that moniker. I think what we have is a nation of worried families - families that are concerned about job security, families who thought their pensions were secure and now have questions. ↗


— Tom Vilsack


#always #changed #concerned #democrats #families

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. ↗


— Tom Vilsack


#activity #benefits #buy #direct #dollar

Food during my early years was a very difficult issue for me. I grew up in an addictive family. My mother had serious problems with alcohol and prescription drugs. I was an overweight kid. I can remember back in those days there weren't the strategies that there are today to deal with those issues. ↗


— Tom Vilsack


#alcohol #back #days #deal #difficult

I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi. ↗


— Tom Vilsack


#democratic party #face #i #nancy #nancy pelosi

Let us build a 21st-century rural economy of cutting-edge companies and technologies that lead us to energy and food security. Such an investment will revitalize rural America, re-establish our moral leadership on climate security and eliminate our addiction to foreign oil. ↗


— Tom Vilsack


#america #build #climate #companies #cutting-edge

More than half of America's rural counties are losing population and with it, political representation. ↗


— Tom Vilsack


#counties #half #losing #more #political

President Obama's fight for rural America is personal. He was raised by a single mom and grandparents from Kansas. He hails from a farming state, Illinois. ↗


— Tom Vilsack


#farming #fight #grandparents #illinois #kansas






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