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Cory Booker: “There are own independent studies that show poor people work…”

Featuring: Cory Booker, Democratic | U.S. Senate, New Jersey

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'This is effing ridiculous': Cory Booker vs John Thune clash over SNAP funding in heated hearing

Published | Video Starts at 08:58

Senator Marshall, I would love it if you and I would support a hearing where we bring poor people who lost their snap payments because of work requirements, which is something we all agree on. But There are own independent studies that show poor people work unpredictable hours and seasonal work. And under your program, people who are hard working hustlers lose it. In fact, when you make bureaucracy more onerous for poor people, more paperwork to fill out, they drop off the system. (08:58–09:05)

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Asserts that studies show poor people work unpredictable and seasonal hours.

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