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.
Yeah, okay and just what are these supposed "long term solutions then you evil cunt? I’m sure she’s spent every day in office trying really hard to tackle the problems of childhood obesity and low income families looking for this long term solution. Get wrecked you shithead
Jesus: “Then go broke.”
Well put
An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition because the prices of food are skewed towards making low income families only afford junk food. The government has the power to fix this with subsidies and other things I’m aware of but forget the names of but they choose not to.
That would be a perfect solution to the whiners that lament the people using EBT for like steaks. Healthy stuff could have a discount applied if using EBT that is reimbursed to the store so they get the same amount.
These clowns better be happy i am not a billionaire. I’d be sending a check to every damn household with kids in the state.
Yeah right
Billionaires don’t spend their money. If they did, they wouldn’t be billionaires.
They spend their money on investing in oil and gas companies, then buying lawmakers to write subsidies for oil and gas companies.
with all that going on, not surprising they find it impossible to care about the well-being of citizens.
That’s why you’re not a billionaire
Iowa has a budget of $8.5B. This program has about 93k eligible families in the state. At $40 per month, assuming 3 months for summer, the total cost is about $11M. Or 0.10% of their state budget. It’s a rounding error…
The suffering is the point.
“Let them eat cake”
-Jesus
“The cake is my body. Enjoy”
Also Jesus
“My hips are a lie”
Anti-Shakira Jesus
“Start with my cake.” -Thick Jesus
The power is the point. The suffering is just something that doesn’t bother them.
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It’s not even Iowa money, it’s a federal subsidy right?
Who does this clown think she’s saving money for? The federal budget doesn’t truly exist, we just use numbers for fun.
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Iowa’s cost would only be $2.2M for admin fees.
$120m is all you need to give that same $40 to literally everyone in her state each month.
Article says that the program is estimated to cost Iowa $2,2 million, the rest covered on a federal level.
They can’t find 2,2 million.
That’s fuckin sad.
Letting billionaires live is not sustainable
This is an argument that is used all the time in politics and business when a (partial) solution to a big problem is presented.
“Well there may be unintended consequences to this solution so we can’t do anything until every single potential problem that may arise sometime in the future is completely worked through and solved.”
I mean if you are going into space then that is probably the way to do things but trying to solve childhood hunger? Yea you got time to fix the problems as they arise.
Loading them up on a bunch of HFCS from those Iowa corn fields will be great for them though I’m sure…
If ever it seems like there’s not enough to go around, blame the people who have too much.
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!
Republicans only understand the politics of cruelty these days.
She’s right all those small subsidies aren’t going to fix anything it’s just going to complicate the system. Minimum wage should be raised
UBI would be great for those who are working or not.
Yeah but all these small subsidizing plans that require people to fill in forms are a giant waste of time. Both on the governments side and the people demanding them.
It’s sticking band aids on an open wound.
Just a generic UBI for everyone would indeed fix a lot of these issues but it would take a century to get there so raising minimum wage is a lot more realistic.
In the meantime though…
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She even looks evil.
