one certainly obliged.???In 2011, government benefits lifted a total of 40 million people out of poverty,??? she testified. ???While Social Security has the largest impact of any single program, means-tested programs such as SNAP, SSI and the EITC lifted almost 20 million Americans, including 8 ?? million children, out of poverty.???She also noted that ???poor babies in the 1960s and 1970s who wer