7-26-12 (St. Paul, MN)  --  Activists this morning (10:30am) in St. Paul launch their campaign to increase welfare grants in Minnesota.  Angel Buechner (BUKE'-ner) with the Welfare Rights Committee says a family of two gets only 437-dollars a month to live on and there's been no increase in 26-years.  She says the size of the grants is "just killing us right now, with the economy the way it is."  Buechner acknowledges it will be a battle to convince lawmakers to increase welfare grants at a time when more state budget deficits are expected -- but she says it's a battle her group is ready to take on.