Ayanna Pressley: “More than half of those [SNAP] cases are right here in…”

“That includes 16 million children, 4 million people with disabilities and 1 million veterans. As the Senator spoke to here in Massachusetts, over a million residents rely on SNAP to to put food on the table. More than half of those [SNAP] cases are right here in Greater Boston in the Massachusetts 7th congressional district. Again, we already had a crisis. And I just want to remind folks, because I represent the Massachusetts seventh, we have some of the most disparate outcomes, including and especially around health, from Cambridge to roxbury, difference of 30 year life expectancy.” (15:07–15:13)

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