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On the recordJanuary 8, 2020
Certainly no one is getting rich on the four-to-five-dollar-a-day average that SNAP pays for food assistance, and if anyone thinks that is an overly generous benefit, they should try living on it.
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Chris Pappas
Democratic · New Hampshire

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Pappas highlights the inadequacy of SNAP benefits for food assistance.

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