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Glenn Grothman: “Programs that began with the so-called war on poverty in the…”

Featuring: Glenn Grothman, Republican | U.S. House of Representatives, Wisconsin, District 6

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As the result, financially, there is an incentive to make a household in which the mother and father are not both there the norm. Now many of the programs, I think almost all the Programs that began with the so-called war on poverty in the 1960s gave grants or money to people who were not both a man and woman in the household. Some of these programs at the time was known as food stamps, some was health care, what's known as Medicaid or different states have different words for it. (02:40–03:04)

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Asserts that 1960s poverty programs favored single-parent households.

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