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GOP governor slashing food program for kids ahead of Christmas sparks fury
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Republican Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds announced a few days before Christmas that her state would not participate in a summer federal food program for impoverished children, which has prompted backlash online.
Reynolds, who has served as the governor of the Hawkeye State since 2017, announced on Friday that Iowa would not be joining other states in the federal 2024 Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children (EBT) program, which provides low-income families with $40 per child per month to help with food costs while schools are closed, the Associated Press reported.
"Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don't provide long-term solutions for the issues impacting children and families," the governor said said.
While in the survey's lower half, she still outranked several other prominent governors, including Republicans like Greg Abbott of Texas and Tate Reeves of Mississippi.
Kim Reynolds had the audacity to cite child obesity as she defended her decision to deprive poor kids of food," author and journalist Mark Jacob wrote in his own post.
As explained in a September post from the Iowa Senate Democratic Party, certain aspects of this expansion violate federal child labor laws, specifically those allowing "16- and 17-year-olds to operate dangerous power-driven machines, engage in heavy manufacturing, and work in demolition," and not requiring "16- and 17-year-olds working in apprenticeship or student-learner roles to be registered by the U.S. Department of Labor or a state agency."
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