Iowa won't participate in US food assistance program for kids this summer

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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A bipartisan group of Nebraska lawmakers have urged the state to reconsider, saying Summer EBT would address the needs of vulnerable children and benefit the state economically, the Journal Star reported.

partial_accumen,

“Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don’t provide long-term solutions for the issues impacting children and families."

“…so instead we the GOP are going to replace this unsustainable program with nothing making a future problem a problem of today!” /s

“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.”

“While yes, EBT card is useful to buy all kinds of healthy food such as fresh produce, staples such as beans and rice, as well as great protein choices such as chicken, pork or beef, you may not be aware that EBT card can also buy sugar! And, you may not be aware, its possible for someone to consume enough sugar to gain weight. Therefore the GOP solution is to remove the EBT card which grants access to this sugar (as well as all the other food). By doing this those children that are overweight will effectively be put on a starvation diet where their bodies will slowly first digest their body’s muscle and put their liver at risk by forcing ketosis. Those children that don’t happen to be overweight, and will suffer tremendously, should have thought about that before they let all their peers eat too much.” /s

lemmylommy,

Can’t have kids eating sugar, they will get fat. Also, let’s give subsidize corn farming some more.

MotoAsh,

I mean… do you need the /s when you’re just de-politicizing the language and not changing the message?

pelespirit,
@pelespirit@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yikes

“In the end, I fundamentally believe that we solve the problem, and I don’t believe in welfare,” Nebraska Republican Gov. Jim Pillen told the Journal Star on Friday.

assembly,

I’m thinking this should be on his campaign posters so that families know exactly who to blame when they are put even further underwater.

sparky1337,

So I guess even church run food banks are too communist.

xkforce, (edited )

No no those are ok because of the religious indoctrination and turning away people that are anything other than straight white christians

Semi-Hemi-Demigod,
Semi-Hemi-Demigod avatar

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

- Literally Jesus, Matthew 7:21-23

xkforce,

Thats commie talk /s

FlyingSquid,
@FlyingSquid@lemmy.world avatar

You joke, but… newrepublic.com/…/christianity-today-editor-evang…

jjjalljs,

The nearby verse is more on point www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew 25%3…

42 For I was hungry, and you didn’t feed me. I was thirsty, and you didn’t give me a drink. 43 I was a stranger, and you didn’t invite me into your home. I was naked, and you didn’t give me clothing. I was sick and in prison, and you didn’t visit me.’

44 “Then they will reply, ‘Lord, when did we ever see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and not help you?’

45 “And he will answer, ‘I tell you the truth, when you refused to help the least of these my brothers and sisters, you were refusing to help me.’

46 “And they will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous will go into eternal life.”

But religious right wingers who even know this part of the Bible will do some backflips to justify that they don’t have to help those people. I once encountered someone telling me it only applied to missionaries.

betterdeadthanreddit,

They’ve got the teachings of Supply Side Jesus to fall back on in situations like this.

Mirshe,

My mom seems to believe it applies to VOLUNTARY giving, and “if the govt is taking your money and doing it without your input it’s not honoring Christ’s intent”.

jjjalljs,

People do a lot of backflips to justify that “render under caeser what is caesar’s” doesn’t mean “pay your taxes”

13 Later they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to Jesus to catch him in his words. 14 They came to him and said, “Teacher, we know that you are a man of integrity. You aren’t swayed by others, because you pay no attention to who they are; but you teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. Is it right to pay the imperial tax[b] to Caesar or not? 15 Should we pay or shouldn’t we?”

But Jesus knew their hypocrisy. “Why are you trying to trap me?” he asked. “Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.” 16 They brought the coin, and he asked them, “Whose image is this? And whose inscription?”

“Caesar’s,” they replied.

17 Then Jesus said to them, “Give back to Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s.”

And they were amazed at him.

PugJesus,
PugJesus avatar

"God, I want to hurt children so much." - Republicans

An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic,

Poor nutrition is when the poors have too much access to food. /s

She added, “If the Biden Administration and Congress want to make a real commitment to family well-being, they should invest in already existing programs and infrastructure at the state level and give us the flexibility to tailor them to our state’s needs.”

Read: "Give us money and let us cut taxes for our ultrawealthy donors yet again."

Clusterfck,

Wouldn’t “schools and their kitchens/cafeterias existing” count as existing programs and infrastructure?

PugJesus,
PugJesus avatar

In theory, sure.

In practice, the GOP has made it a core issue to defund schools and remove free and subsidized lunches, so it's unlikely that any money given to the governor's administration would go towards anything of the sort.

Brkdncr,

Wait, did she just say some kids are too fat so they don’t want to feed any of them?

Cethin,

That’s how I read it too. I really hope not, but I’m also assuming this is a republican so probably.

Feirdro,

They literally believe that the gubmint is feeding poor children so much they’ve become obese.

Gah, i feel dirty when i see things from their pov.

BigBrainBrett2517,

Upvote for the use of ‘gubmit’. Hadn’t seen before. Very funny.

ApathyTree,
@ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

For $40/mth no less.

grue,

That’s the charitable interpretation! The other way of reading it is that in reality some children are obese while others go hungry, but they can’t be bothered to give a shit which are which.

billiam0202,

Republicans not giving a shit about children. Quelle surprise.

kautau,

Nothing they say is about children. Regardless of the topic, anything they say can be translated to “this isn’t making the rich richer, perhaps it’s even making the rich less rich, and therefore I will vote against it”

iquanyin,

bingo

iquanyin,

obesity is also a result of malnutrition.

Son_of_dad,

Republicans wanna keep kids nice and fit for Matt Gaetz and the other diddlers in their party.

prole,

They should sell it to Republicans in the state as a way to keep their employees fed without having to spend any more money.

Employees in this case, being the children in case nobody got that

roofuskit,

The GOP hates children.

butt_mountain_69420,
  1. $40 ain’t doing shit
  2. EBT can be spent on almost anything, so there’s no guarantee this isn’t just buying your sidechick a steak.
  3. The grocery store is, just like everything else in the US, a fucking scam. Most of the items aren’t nutritious at all, repackaging salt, sugar, and corn into a thousand shapes and flavors. It tastes good, so people buy it because they’re fucking stupid, and the ones that aren’t were taught a fucked food pyramid that prioritized protein and carbs because of corruption.
  4. We’re fucked lads. The kids are double fucked and don’t have any idea.
  5. CO2 is a painless death.
badbytes,

Sounds like a state that needs to put more funding into basic education.

donescobar,

They are trying to abolish that too

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

“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.

Okay, so they have a better program they’re implementing instead to address those issues?

Eigerloft,

“hey shut up” - conservatives

Catma,

Well those kids are obese. Probably do them some good to drop a few pounds right?

Seems like a great way to campaign, “you’re kids are fat so i am goibg to starve them to make them healthy?”

CileTheSane,
@CileTheSane@lemmy.ca avatar

The “pro-life” and “protect the children” party at work

Fridgeratr,

I can’t even imagine thinking about having this stance. Literally evil

Maggoty, (edited )

Some kids are fat so poor kids should starve?

Holy shit GOP.

NotMyOldRedditName,

There’s a very good chance the kids that are overweight are overweight in part because the parents can’t afford better food as junk food is often cheaper. This could just worsen the problem.

Maggoty,

Yup. Not to mention, distended bellies are also a symptom of malnourishment. These are the people who will point at starving kids in Africa and claim they’re fat.

NotMyOldRedditName,

I’d never heard of that, wow. That’s so shitty.

cabron_offsets,

Fuck kids i guess

iquanyin,

We’re on the bad side of literally every issue. we’re the GOP!

Furedadmins,

This is so fucking stupid, not only does this feed kids the money goes to local retailers but a huge chunk also buys Iowa food products. What the fuck is wrong with that idiot

extant,

They have never experienced poverty so they think it’s fine because if they were in that situation they would pull themselves up by their bootstraps or whatever delusional shit they come up with. To them it’s non-issue and everyone in poverty must be lazy.

OutlierBlue,

Haha yeah, stupid lazy jobless children.

extant,

Now that you mention it they did lower the age limit for working in Iowa this year.

Twelve20two,

If these kids didn’t want to be poor, they should’ve thought twice before being born to poor parents

inclementimmigrant,

Surprise, surprise that Republican Christians don’t give a fuck about the welfare of kids in poverty.

snausagesinablanket,
@snausagesinablanket@lemmy.world avatar

Republican Christian should be considered a Sect in this religion.

tupcakes,
@tupcakes@midwest.social avatar

My state ladies and gentlemen. Fuck, Iowa used to be decent.

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