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Capital & Main
Capital & Main
Mark Kreidler

Congress Could Get Millions of People Off of SNAP by Raising the Minimum Wage, but It Hasn’t — for 16 Years

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There is, it turns out, something more scandalous than the sight of a U.S. president beaming while hosting a Roaring Twenties party, replete with attendees wearing Gatsbyesque clothing reminiscent of the rich-get-richer years leading to the Great Depression — on the weekend before food stamp benefits for 42 million Americans are cut off.

It’s the part about the 42 million Americans.

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