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This Video Only Needs 30 Seconds To Point Out The Welfare Recipients Naysayers Keep Forgetting

Lots of stereotypes surround people on welfare, aka food stamps, and many of them are completely unfair and … um … racist. A look at the numbers shows that government aid isn’t skewed as heavily as SOME people would like you to believe. (Try and guess who those people are.)

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Franchesca Ramsey

How about we throw a fact-check up in this bad boy/girl/gender-neutral noun? You ready? The stats cited in this video come from this 2012 New York Times piece, which was based on this Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis. Booya!

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