“I have no choice,” she said, “because you’ve got to make ends meet.”

SNAP provides a monthly stipend for food to more than 40 million low-income Americans. A version of this year’s Farm Bill that reached the U.S. House floor last month would tighten the program’s work requirements and exemptions, pushing a projected 2 million people off SNAP by the early 2020s.

In contrast, the Senate’s Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry passed a Farm Bill with bipartisan support last week that strengthens SNAP’s job-training programs and leaves its work requirements unchanged.

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