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.
Why?
That is part of being an adult. Taking care of yourself and your obligations.
So why is it my obligation to address poverty instead of the governments?
You don’t think an adult should be responsible for their actions? /
Quit trying to put words in my mouth.
I don’t have children, I’m not in poverty. I have not caused others to be in poverty. So how is it my obligation to solve U.S. poverty instead of the governments?
It isn’t the job of the governments.
So why did you say it is my job?
Probably because he expected you to not be a dick about interpreting what he said
I said it the job of the people to take care of themselves. You seem to be passionate about this. Out your money were your mouth is and donate