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On the recordJuly 14, 2015
But the problem is there are a lot of Members of Congress who are instinctively against SNAP because they think it creates dependency, when the evidence is the opposite.
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Jim McGovern
Democratic · Massachusetts

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McGovern argues against misconceptions about SNAP creating dependency.

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