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.

  • Captainvaqina@sh.itjust.works
    50·
    6 months ago

    We just want to make sure that they’re out. They’re at church camps. They’re at schools. They’re at 4-H. And we’ll take care of them at all of the places that they’re at, so that they’re out amongst (other people) and not feeding a welfare system with food at home,” Pillen said.

    Nebraskan gov is a piece of shit too. Only wants to help the children if they get sent to indoctrination camps. Fucking trash. They’re not even pretending to be human.

    • mlg@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      6 months ago

      Why, there are no children at the 4-H club either!

      Am I so out of touch!?

      …

      No

      It is the children who are wrong

      • AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world
        3·
        6 months ago

        Exactly. The whole Conservative ethos is “government bad”(unless is our government). They want kids in programs that are almost all religious indoctrination programs.