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Joshua Green

Gingrich’s food-stamp barbs whiz past the truth

By Joshua Green

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  January 19, 2012

While GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich’s attacks on food stamps and those who use them are essentially the same ones he and his colleagues were making two decades ago, the profile of the recipients has changed a great deal since then - and in a direction that Gingrich should applaud were his true motivation, as he claims, to encourage blacks to “demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.’’

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