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Bill Lee: how do you expect people on SNAP to get a job if you are cutting the very programs that they are supposed to help?

On the recordMarch 5, 2018
how do you expect people on SNAP to get a job if you are cutting the very programs that they are supposed to help?
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Bill Lee
Republican · Tennessee

Editor's note · Context

Barbara Lee questions the impact of proposed cuts to job training programs on SNAP recipients.

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