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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Just tell them if more poor kids survive until adulthood there’s more cheap workforce around.
The kids generally survive anyway, just with stunted cognitive growth…which helps maintain a cheap
underclassworkforce.And full prison system.
Feed a kid instant ramen for all their meals -> iron deficiency -> behavioral problems. Believe a poor kid like this was featured in A Place at the Table (2012), or a similar documentary. An example who opened my eyes to the fact that… well, it’s not bad to consider thinking kindly, even when it seems like an adult just sucks.
Remind me of this old Babylon 5 scene.
That was fucking awesome. If this were reddit, I’d give you a silver.
Yeah… but if you feed those kids they’ll just expect government handouts for the rest of their life. What do you just expect the government to give them money when they’re old or something? You have to save for retirement!
Now where’s my social security check?
I guess she’d rather they just starve…
Of course, what this is really all about is a refusal to pay taxes.