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Glenn Grothman: “Unemployment is almost nonexistent, but despite the fact we…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:14

But in order to get on food stamps, you know, you need a lower income. And I think we ought to be spending more time wondering why. And right now, you know, Unemployment is almost nonexistent, but despite the fact we have almost nonexistent unemployment, we skyrocketed up from 17 million to 42 million people on food stamps. So it's important I want to dig into these programs because some of these programs give people on the programs benefits that people not on the programs would not use. (06:14–06:27)

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Asserts that food stamp usage increased despite low unemployment rates.

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