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Gwyneth Paltrow’s SNAP Food Stamp Farce

By Ari Armstrong

Apr 14, 2015
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Actress Gwyneth Paltrow recently claimed on Twitter that “families on SNAP (i.e. food stamps) have” only $29 “to live on for a week.” She said she’d live on that amount for a week to draw attention to the struggles of America’s poor.

One glaring problem with Paltrow’s cause is that her figures are a complete fabrication (as I pointed out on Twitter). Acc…

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