The $21 Question

"This week, you may have heard about the four members of Congress who have decided to try living on the amount of food they could buy with $21, the average weekly Food Stamp program allotment... people should demand to know why, in a year in which we are projected to give the wealthiest 1 percent of the nation some $56.5 billion in tax breaks, we can't do better than an average of $21 a week to ensure that our fellow Americans can have three decent meals a day."