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James Talarico: “Fraud rates for SNAP, the food assistance program, and for…”

Featuring: James Talarico, Democratic | Texas House of Representatives, District 50

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Published | Video Starts at 04:45

… good amount of money, but those that really need the aid, who get a bad reputation because of these shitheads over here. So this has actually been studied, and the Fraud rates for SNAP, the food assistance program, and for Medicaid are shockingly low. And what happens here is the corporate media, they try to pick out some rare case and they blow it up. (04:45–04:51)

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Claims that fraud rates in SNAP and Medicaid programs are very low.

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