Reynolds Turns Down Summer EBT Again
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Look in the mirror. Kids deserve to have sustenance in their stomachs. Quit being an asshole. Then we can have a genuine talk. You would be surprised at some the ideas I have for the right. But they are just too cultist right now.
You are blinded by politics to the point that denying children food seems reasonable. Don’t project your crap on me and others.
Of course they do. A good/healthy plan was put forward and the folks you voted for rejected it.
Money the country doesn’t have.
Marshall County Food Access Committee members are once again facing the reality of the loss of federal money intended to feed low-income youth.
Repeating actions from 2024, Gov. Kim Reynolds opted out of the United States Department of Agriculture Summer EBT program. If she had decided to utilize the program, $29 million in federal funds would have been used to feed 245,000 children, roughly 4,000 of whom live in Marshall County.
The Summer EBT program would have brought around $500,000 to Marshall County for food assistance for the youth. Each child would have been provided with a $120 EBT card to cover the months when they are not in school.
Committee member and Marshall County ISU Extension Director Amy Pieper said she tends to be an optimistic person, so was hopeful the governor would not turn it down again. However, she was not surprised.
“I think people were expecting Gov. Reynolds would waive the summer EBT again,” she said. “We’re greatly disappointed because it would have brought $29 million in food assistance to youth who are going hungry during the summer time because they don’t have school-provided meals.”
Fortunately, the Marshalltown Community School District (MCSD) does provide breakfast and lunch to children during the summer. Unfortunately, Pieper said not all of the youth can utilize the service.
“Because of transportation issues, it’s not greatly used,” she said. “The buses aren’t running, kids aren’t getting to the location, parents are working so they can’t drive kids to the schools just for lunch. The EBT program would have allowed parents to select foods their kids could prepare and like to eat in their own homes.”
Last year, Reynolds said the reason she denied the program was the lack of focus on nutritional food when childhood obesity is climbing. Instead, Reynolds submitted a request to the USDA for the state to use the funding for monthly food boxes for families who earn 200 percent of the federal poverty level. The federal agency denied the request because of the proven success of the EBT program, and families would have to rely on transportation to obtain the food, which they do not have to worry about with a card.
Pieper is expecting the governor to submit the waiver again for the food boxes.
“If the USDA accepts that in lieu of summer EBT, that is not a guarantee,” she said. “If she does not get the waiver accepted by the USDA, there will not be food boxes this summer. If it does get accepted, I don’t know what type of funding support the state of Iowa will have. I don’t know if there’s a plan in place by the governor or anyone else on how to put the food boxes together and how to distribute them. Even at that point, there’s going to be distribution issues with transportation. How do you get the boxes to families? Then you add on top of that, is there food in the boxes that these kids can prepare themselves, want and like to eat?”
Last year, after her waiver was rejected, Reynolds did make $900,000 in Iowa Department of Education grant money available to expand feeding sites. Grants were given to 38 entities, none of which were in Marshall County.
Pieper said the next Food Access Committee meeting will be in March at the Marshall County ISU Extension office. She encouraged anyone — residents, churches, businesses, organizations — to attend, and added they will try to determine the best course of action to get food to hungry kids.
“I think the committee will look harder at how we can do a community food drive and how that food is distributed,” Pieper said. “Right now, the food would go to the little pantries and the Emergency Food Box, but how do we get it directly to the youth in the community?”
Donating food to the little pantries and the Emergency Food Box is another thing people can do, she said. There are 10 pantries in Marshalltown and one in almost every surrounding community, and food is available to everyone, regardless of income.
“We were just all hoping [Reynolds] would go forward with it,” Pieper said. “What can we do now? Let’s move forward.”
Food Access Committee to determine summer course of action after Reynolds’ denial of federal funds
Marshall County Food Access Committee members are once again facing the reality of the loss of federal money intended to feed low-income youth. Repeating actions from 2024, Gov. Kim Reynolds opted out of the United States Department of Agriculture Summer EBT program. If she had decided to...www.timesrepublican.com
Utter nonsense.
Why did the Biden Administration reject the plan to distribute healthy food?
Why did Kim? She likes to brag about her surplus of unspent COVID money like she did something miraculous. She is a lying POS.
Three boxes a month? That's it? That's shittier than I thought. What kind of asshole can you be to tell kids that they can't go to the store and that they have to get whatever you want to give them just three times a month?
Screw your kids if they have dietary restrictions or allergies. You'll eat what we tell you to eat. It doesn't matter if the box we give you doesn't work in reality. We know better than you.
Dude. Look at how much money she took from the feds and did not spend it. She criticized COVID funding but was happy to take it. She is a joke. A GED student at best.
Bullshit. Guarantee somewhere in you lineage they relied upon the government whether you want to admit it or not.
The EBT program only allotted $40 per month and could be used to buy soda, candy and other snacks.
Reynolds program will provide healthy meals.
Tell yourself whatever you need to. I don't believe in an afterlife....but if there is one.....a lot of you MAGAs are going to hell. I'll greet you.
Thanks. I hope we can have a good faith conversation sometime soon.
Heading to VA on Monday. Can't kick this shite.
Kim is not “tone deaf”….she is stubborn and vindictive. She learned this from her mentor, Terry Branstad. Poor folks don’t vote for Ted anyway… abs they certainly cannot contribute $$ to her opposition. Besides, that surplus in the Treasury is designated for her supporters.
Her program will provide whatever the stores don't want. Let's get real here. You think her program is getting the best produce? Or the freshest bread? It's warehouse surplus not good enough for the shelves.
And for the jerks talking about healthy foods.....I'm sure Ramen Noodles and Totinos pizza will be allowed.
It's like he has this image that all these sweet old grandma's are lovingly filling up grocery carts in Hy Vee saying, "Oh won't the children enjoy this wholesome food."
In reality it's Kimmy cutting whole sellers a check and saying give us whatever the stores haven't called dibs on. And the whole sellers chuck all the week old crap into a corner of the warehouse and tape "Kimmy's Kids" on the side while the food sits until Kimmy's people pick it up half a week later.
You have no way of knowing that.
But even if true, like the old adage goes, beggers can't be choosers.
The closest thing I can think of is Social Security, but that’s nothing more than returning to them money that was already confiscated from them, with really shitty interest. And if they had to rely upon it, they’d have starved.
Nice try. I support universal free lunches in schools and have stated that on HROT repeatedly.
Lets see what the emotionless AI says.
Key points about this phrase:
- Dependence on others:
It highlights the idea that when you rely on someone else's generosity, you can't dictate the terms of that generosity.
- Accepting what's available:
This proverb implies that you should be grateful for what you get, even if it's not exactly what you wanted.
The governor feeding hungry kids isn't called generosity. It's called doing her fvcking job you muppet.
☝🏻 leftist f.uckuppery in a nutshell. You people see the government as a tool to confiscate the wealth of others. This is why we give you people the middle finger.
PS: 🖕🏻
Ok, so I googled “Great Iowa Famine of 2024” and got nothing. Then I googled “pictures of starving children in Iowa” and only came up with pictures of well-fed children eating. Like, WTF, man?!
Why do you Republicans always think the wealthiest country in the world can’t afford anything that benefits the middle class or poor? Again, the billionaires thank you for your service.
