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Food Tom Vilsack

Tom Vilsack | food

Somewhere between 50 to 60 percent of the food you eat has been touched by immigrant hands, and it is fair to say some of them are not here as they should be here. But if you didn’t have these folks, you would be spending a lot more – three, four or five times more – for food, or we would have to import food and have all the food security risks.

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Food Tom Vilsack

Tom Vilsack | food

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

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family Tom Vilsack

Tom Vilsack | family

In the past 40 years, the United States lost more than a million farmers and ranchers. Many of our farmers are aging. Today, only nine percent of family farm income comes from farming, and more and more of our farmers are looking elsewhere for their primary source of income.

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education Tom Vilsack

Tom Vilsack | education

In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression and worked to lay a new foundation for economic growth. The president identified three key strategies to build that lasting prosperity: innovation, investment, and education.

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