$1 = 4 Meals

Without a change of heart by state government, some 135,000 low-income Ohioans could find it even more difficult to put food on the holiday table. "Hunger doesn't know a zip code," said state Rep. Dan Ramos. "It doesn't know a county line. So I don't think we should be picking and choosing winners on issues of food security."

"A lot of the people that we have been enrolliing over the past couple weeks have been people that we've met in October and November who are now coming back," said Jessica May, navigator with the Ohio Association of Foodbanks. "We see it every day. Forty-two percent of the people that are standing in our food lines are making choices between food, medicine and medical care," said executive director Lisa Hamler-Fugitt.

"I cannot support a bill that harms those in need or down on their luck," states Senator Sherrod Brown. "For millions, SNAP helps buy groceries when wages are tight, savings have been depleted, and families are struggling to make ends meet. The proposed farm bill cuts SNAP by nearly $40 billion, a proposal that will leave too many Americans hungry."