The state told the Agriculture Department that it won't participate in the federal Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children program.

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.

  • mindbleach
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    11 months ago

    Always A Bigger Fish. Abridged:

    Conservative contradictions start to make sense if you ask: does this distribute power, or consolidate it? $15 an hour is too much for flipping burgers, but somehow $11.5 million an hour isn’t too much to run Amazon. If you’re flipping burgers, you’re a minnow, and you don’t need $15 an hour to be a minnow. But sharks deserve all they can get - because they know what to do with it.

    You cannot communicate with conservatives or predict their actions if you don’t understand what they believe. They will never be on-board with aiding the poor in any systemic way, and will instead champion charity and crowdfunding, because minnows getting to eat should always be framed as a gift rather than a right.