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Steve Southerland: “With food stamp usage now cutting a swath well into the middle class, is it fair to ask if we were anticipating that…”

On the recordJuly 23, 2014
With food stamp usage now cutting a swath well into the middle class, is it fair to ask if we were anticipating that average Americans would be buying each other their groceries through the Federal Government?
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Steve Southerland
Florida

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Southerland questions the fairness of food stamp reliance among middle-class families.

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