Chris Murphy dropped six pounds in four days — trying to experience how his poorest constituents eat, while also trying to avoid eating junk.
Murphy, a freshman Democratic U.S. senator from Connecticut, is finishing a five-day experiment Friday: eating on $4.80 a day, the average amount Connecticut food-stamp recipients receive. When he weighed himself upon his return home to the state Friday, the six-foot-one senator discovered his weight had dropped from 190 to 184 pounds since Monday. Friday morning, he discussed his experience with a panel of local food-pantry folks from Greater New Haven.
