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Iowa won't participate in US food assistance program for kids this summer (apnews.com)
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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.

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[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 23 points 11 months ago

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@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

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@ttrpg.network 14 points 11 months ago

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

[-] xkforce@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 16 points 11 months ago

The nearby verse is more on point https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%2025%3A42-46&version=NLT

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@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Mirshe@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

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@ttrpg.network 1 points 11 months ago

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.

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