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.
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
“Start with my cake.” -Thick Jesus
“My hips are a lie”
Anti-Shakira 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.
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