Iowa will not participate this summer in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs while school is out, state officials have announced.
The state has notified the U.S. Department of Agriculture that it will not participate in the 2024 Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children — or Summer EBT — program, the state’s Department of Health and Human Services and Department of Education said in a Friday news release.
“Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don’t provide long-term solutions for the issues impacting children and families. An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic,” Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds said in the news release.
Too bad those kids aren’t Fetuses. Then Republicans might actually CARE about them!
Okay, how about UBI, then? That’s been proven over and over to be an effective soluti—
No? Something something bootstraps? Oh, then go fuck yourself with a cactus!
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Iowa will not participate this summer in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs while school is out, state officials have announced.
“Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don’t provide long-term solutions for the issues impacting children and families.
An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic,” Iowa Republican Gov.
Some state lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Izaah Knox of Des Moines, quickly voiced their opposition to the decision.
“It’s extremely disappointing that the Reynolds administration is planning to reject federal money that could put food on the table for hungry Iowa kids,” Knox said in a statement.
States, territories and eligible tribal nations have until Jan. 1 to notify the Department of Agriculture of their intent to participate in the program this summer.
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She says it costs $2.2 million to feed them kids, with the federal government covering the other $2.2 million.
Let’s set aside that Iowa has an FY24 spending budget of $8.5 billion, out of which $2.2 million is basically nothing…
Rather, let’s make this a 🅲🆄🅻🆃🆄🆁🅴 🆆🅰🆁 🅸🆂🆂🆄🅴! Parental rights, right? That thing where parents can uncritically direct “the care, custody, and control of their minor children.” It sanctifies the views of parents, elevating them over government intrusion. If a federal program provides $40 a month to each child in a low-income family to help with food costs via an EBT card, then, presumably, those parents are making the best choices for their children.
Right?
Not so! says Kim Reynolds. Low-income families are too stupid, she implies, not to give their kids nutritious foods when childhood obesity has become an epidemic. By not participating the federal program then, Reynolds is ostensibly protecting children. But really, her non-participation undermines sanctified parental choices in Iowa to provide for their kids.
And who is she to supersede parental rights? A Republican governor.
I guess she’d rather they just starve…
she simply wants to hurt poor people.
it’s not a ‘covid-era’ thing anymore, it’s a permanent program now–one paid for by the feds, who will also reimburse states for half of their expenses to distribute those funds to those eligible… which really isn’t that much seeing how that most of the recipients probably already applied-for or are receiving other benefits for low-income households.
Ok, so should the Federal Government slash Iowa’s emergency response fund by the same amount? Iowa, bootstraps, etc.
The Federal Government should just fund the other $2.2M and shame them. “Okay Iowa, if you can’t feed your state’s children, we’ll pick up the slack for you. Please remember who cared about you in November.”
If they dems had ANY testicles at all they would, call it “Feds Feed Iowa,” and rub it in their citizens faces that they can get free money from a democrat program, but they won’t, because they are equally spineless.
Why is that your stance, Governor? Are there a lot of food-insecure children from low income families in your state?
Letting billionaires live is not sustainable
Loading them up on a bunch of HFCS from those Iowa corn fields will be great for them though I’m sure…
What a poverty state, I’d he embarrassed if I lived in a place that had so many poors or so little money that that’s not affordable
Iowa forces women to have children against their will, then denies them the resources needed to raise them. This means unwanted, unafforded children, born to suffer. They pretend this is a good deed. Monsters.
They claim it’s the will of their lord and savior who literally preaches the opposite and the brainless just eat that shit up without a second thought.
This is because the GOP is purposefully garbage at actually governing.
if you’re a Conservative, little kids just don’t work hard enough to deserve food
We just want to make sure that they’re out. They’re at church camps. They’re at schools. They’re at 4-H. And we’ll take care of them at all of the places that they’re at, so that they’re out amongst (other people) and not feeding a welfare system with food at home,” Pillen said.
Nebraskan gov is a piece of shit too. Only wants to help the children if they get sent to indoctrination camps. Fucking trash. They’re not even pretending to be human.
