06/23/2011
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"If the goal is to help SNAP participants no longer need nutrition assistance, what kind of investments do we need to make?"
"My message today is that we need to invest differently. More Americans will experience income stability if we get these Federal programs right."
"I think that is the intention here, and I didn't hear anybody here say that the way we help people get out of poverty is to cut SNAP by $10 billion."
"States need to have that flexibility to be able to provide people with basic food assistance."