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Iowa governor says it's 'not sustainable' to give $40 per month to kids from low-income families for food (fortune.com)

submitted 2 years ago by BigMacHole@lemm.ee to c/conservative@lemm.ee

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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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[–] PizzaMane@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Which is why only programs that do good or are vital services should be added.

Food for impoverished children easily counts for both.

[–] jimbolauski@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just a little bit more, it's for a good cause is not a good gauge, any program could be shoehorned into those criteria.

[–] PizzaMane@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a lunch program for summer.

[–] jimbolauski@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's 40 million dollars

[–] PizzaMane@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For children

[–] jimbolauski@lemm.ee -3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Saying "for children" doesn't make money appear

[–] PizzaMane@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Didn't say it did.

[–] jimbolauski@lemm.ee -2 points 2 years ago

Than that point is irrelevant.

[–] tsonfeir@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

Tax churches.