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Jim McGovern: “If the economy gets better, the amount we spend goes down.”

On the recordJune 23, 2011
If the economy gets better, the amount we spend goes down.
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Jim McGovern
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

McGovern links SNAP spending to economic conditions and poverty levels.

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