Commentary: My family relied on food stamps. The new SNAP rules ignore the realities of food insecurity and poverty.
As a child, I often walked the short distance from my family's tenement house in Woonsocket, R.I., to the neighborhood store to buy milk and bread.
I paid with food stamps, which my family needed until we didn't just a few short years later. With four growing boys in the family, we were always running out of milk and bread.
Today, I'm the president of a national financing and leasing firm. I worked hard to go from a working poor upbringing to where I am today,
