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On the recordOctober 5, 2011
So you now have no more unemployment benefits, and you are middle class yesterday, and today you are with food stamps.
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Jim McDermott
Democratic · Washington

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McDermott discusses the transition from middle class to reliance on food stamps due to unemployment.

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