Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130620:00:55:00
Snap has gone up. people look at this and say there's something wrong here. $80 billion a year is not a smaumt amount of money. what has happened? >> the reason we're not somalia or haiti, the program is working. it's counter cyclical. when the economy's bad it increases, when the economy's good, it goes down. the reason we don't have mass starvation is this program is helping tens of millions of american families survive. the facts are, before the 1970s, when we did have the program, we had third world style malnutrition. these programs almost entirely ended hunger in the 1970s. >> that used ...
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