Before she became the top-grossing actress of all time, Scarlett Johansson lived on welfare and food stamps as a child...
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00:00You lived on welfare.
00:01Yeah.
00:02Yeah, I lived on welfare.
00:08I've been always interested in local politics and I think that change happens at home.
00:13There are 16 million children struggling with hunger in America.
00:20You know, we were living on welfare, we were on food stamps.
00:26My parents were raising four kids in a low-income household in Manhattan, so it was, it was,
00:33there was a lot.
00:34Our family struggled financially.
00:37We've been on public assistance for several years.
00:40And we finally settled in a housing development for lower middle-income families.
00:44We went to public schools and depended on programs for school transport and lunches,
00:49as did most of my friends.
00:50My girlfriends from high school to this day still depend on Planned Parenthood and often Medicaid
01:01for important health care services.
01:02That's why I'm here today, to use whatever attention I'm fortunate enough to receive
01:07to shed the spotlight on what's at stake for all of us.
01:11Are you kidding?
01:11I'm working.