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Mark Pocan: “It used to be a single parent with kids up to 18...Now it's…”

Featuring: Mark Pocan, Democratic | U.S. House, Wisconsin, District 2

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Congressman Mark Pocan Discusses Trump's National Guard Deployment and the Impact of the Billionaires' Bill

Published | Video Starts at 08:43

It used to be, you know, you, you have to have work requirements right. For, to get the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, except for certain cases. It used to be a single parent with kids up to 18...Now it's a single parent with kids up to 8 [for SNAP work requirements]. At 8. I guess if you're old enough to work in the mine, you know, you're old enough to, to, to maybe have to have your parent go work in order to get that $6.20 a day of food assistance for a hungry kid. (08:43–08:47)

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Asserts that SNAP work requirement exceptions for single parents have changed from kids up to 18 to kids up to 8.

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