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.
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A bipartisan group of Nebraska lawmakers have urged the state to reconsider, saying Summer EBT would address the needs of vulnerable children and benefit the state economically, the Journal Star reported.
Wait, did she just say some kids are too fat so they don’t want to feed any of them?
Republicans wanna keep kids nice and fit for Matt Gaetz and the other diddlers in their party.
They should sell it to Republicans in the state as a way to keep their employees fed without having to spend any more money.
Employees in this case, being the children in case nobody got that
Meanwhile farmers in Iowa get the majority of their income off the fat teat of the US government. Go fuck yourself hypocrites.
Farming subsidies are insane in Iowa but because so much of the farming is owned by giant corporations instead of families, it’s just another way we move money from taxpayers to the wealthy.
It pisses me off to no end that rural Iowans go hard Republican. They listen to the pandering to “Iowa Farmers” from the right, despite only larping as farmers since they all sold their farms in the 70s and 80s.
Sorry, Tom the “farmer”, but living in a ranch house on .25 acres in a town of 200 people and wearing coveralls from 35 years ago, does not make you the beneficiary of Iowa farm money.
An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic,”
Holy fuck… she’s literally saying that your kids should starve because other kids are fat.
It’s such a weird hill to die on, too. We pay, what, 15k/kid per year of education? 120 bucks is too much, though.
They do this for so many things. The death penalty is far more expensive than life in prison, but they’d rather be cruel than save the money that they always say shouldn’t be spent.
They just think the answer is to kill them faster to save money.
To be fair. It’s not like the appeals system works when SCOTUS denied one on the basis that we have to respect the jury, even after literally everyone involved in the trial said there was exculpatory evidence missing from the trial.
So it doesn’t matter how bad the trial was anymore. Any death sentence must stand under their reasoning.
SCOTUS, or at least Scalia, has also decided that innocence isn’t a compelling reason to be spared execution.
We should never let these vermin get away with calling themselves “pro-life.”
Some kids are fat so poor kids should starve?
Holy shit GOP.
There’s a very good chance the kids that are overweight are overweight in part because the parents can’t afford better food as junk food is often cheaper. This could just worsen the problem.
Yup. Not to mention, distended bellies are also a symptom of malnourishment. These are the people who will point at starving kids in Africa and claim they’re fat.
I’d never heard of that, wow. That’s so shitty.
Dear kid,
You will go hungry today because we will also let you starve tomorrow.
Also, you are fat.
Love, Republicans
I love when this happens and they present no alternative. Choosing a losing option instead of accepting an imperfect effort. Try to improve it? No surely not. Throw it all away. If a social program helps someone I deem unworthy of aid it must be removed.
How small of a person.
The biggest Republican. Is still a fucking small person.
There were places here where you could grab a free box lunch during the summer.
Were or are?
That was 30 years ago. No clue.
“Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don’t provide long-term solutions for the issues impacting children and families."
“…so instead we the GOP are going to replace this unsustainable program with nothing making a future problem a problem of today!” /s
“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.”
“While yes, EBT card is useful to buy all kinds of healthy food such as fresh produce, staples such as beans and rice, as well as great protein choices such as chicken, pork or beef, you may not be aware that EBT card can also buy sugar! And, you may not be aware, its possible for someone to consume enough sugar to gain weight. Therefore the GOP solution is to remove the EBT card which grants access to this sugar (as well as all the other food). By doing this those children that are overweight will effectively be put on a starvation diet where their bodies will slowly first digest their body’s muscle and put their liver at risk by forcing ketosis. Those children that don’t happen to be overweight, and will suffer tremendously, should have thought about that before they let all their peers eat too much.” /s
I mean… do you need the /s when you’re just de-politicizing the language and not changing the message?
Can’t have kids eating sugar, they will get fat. Also, let’s give subsidize corn farming some more.
This is so fucking stupid, not only does this feed kids the money goes to local retailers but a huge chunk also buys Iowa food products. What the fuck is wrong with that idiot
They have never experienced poverty so they think it’s fine because if they were in that situation they would pull themselves up by their bootstraps or whatever delusional shit they come up with. To them it’s non-issue and everyone in poverty must be lazy.
Yeah but wealthy donors are complaining the people aren’t desperate enough to take whatever job for whatever salary.
Repugnants: “We hate kids.”
It’s really sad because I grew up poor and relied on food assistance at school for a reliable meal during the weekdays. If I had to not eat lunch most weeks I think my childhood would’ve been arguably a lot worse
it’s infuriating. And not “mildly” infuriating. this is full on, rage-inducing pisses me off. Fortunately, we’re going the way up here; funding more free lunches.
No no, “we hate YOUR kids”.
They like hating things that don’t exist,
And Jesus said, onto thee, fuck them kids.
Surprise, surprise that Republican Christians don’t give a fuck about the welfare of kids in poverty.
Republican Christian should be considered a Sect in this religion.
Sounds like a state that needs to put more funding into basic education.
They are trying to abolish that too
Evil intent dressed up as “this is good for you”
“Christian Values”
I bet Matt Gaetz was disappointed to find out that this was what his Nebraskan pals had meant when they said they’d be screwing a bunch of kids during summer break.
