Iowa will not participate in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family over the summer to help with food costs while school is out.

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.

  • @[email protected]
    22•11 months ago

    It’s such a weird hill to die on, too. We pay, what, 15k/kid per year of education? 120 bucks is too much, though.

    • Flying Squid
      17•11 months ago

      They do this for so many things. The death penalty is far more expensive than life in prison, but they’d rather be cruel than save the money that they always say shouldn’t be spent.

        • @Maggoty
          6•11 months ago

          To be fair. It’s not like the appeals system works when SCOTUS denied one on the basis that we have to respect the jury, even after literally everyone involved in the trial said there was exculpatory evidence missing from the trial.

          So it doesn’t matter how bad the trial was anymore. Any death sentence must stand under their reasoning.

          • @HighElfMage
            4•11 months ago

            SCOTUS, or at least Scalia, has also decided that innocence isn’t a compelling reason to be spared execution.

            We should never let these vermin get away with calling themselves “pro-life.”