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Jim McGovern: “The benefit itself is woefully inadequate, $1.40 per person, per meal, per day.”

On the recordJanuary 11, 2016
The benefit itself is woefully inadequate, $1.40 per person, per meal, per day.
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Jim McGovern
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Highlighting the insufficiency of SNAP benefits.

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