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.

  • @[email protected]
    13•11 months ago

    This is basic eugenism. What she says is that poor should not have kids as they can’t afford them.

    • @Dkarma
      28•11 months ago

      Worse. They’re rejecting free federal money of $40 PER KID. For no reason at all except ‘the money won’t be there forever’

      Republicans are literally starving children. For no reason.

    • @[email protected]
      2•11 months ago

      But also making it difficult to obtain birth control and abortions. Something doesn’t add up here.

    • @[email protected]
      1•11 months ago

      But they need the poor to have kids for the next generation of military service… Gotta keep them starving so MRE’s look gourmet!