I also want to say for the record some of us have a tradition of trying to live for a week on SNAP benefits.
Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I also want to say for the record some of us have a tradition of trying to live for a week on SNAP benefits.”
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Norton shares her personal experience of living on SNAP benefits to highlight their insufficiency.
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