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Jim McGovern: “I think of SNAP as providing medicine for people, because I do think food is medicine.”

On the recordJuly 14, 2015
I think of SNAP as providing medicine for people, because I do think food is medicine.
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Jim McGovern
Democratic · Massachusetts

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McGovern compares food assistance to medical treatment.

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