Fifteen states — all but one run by Republican governors — skipped the deadline to apply for a new federally-funded program that will provide $120 per child for groceries during the summer months to families of children who already qualify for free or reduced-price lunch at school.
In a better world we’d have some kind of test for empathy for those running for office.
“Thanks for coming in, we have your test results back and it turns out you’re an irredemable cunt and therefore you can’t run, try being less Republican. All the best.”
Psych evals need to be required to hold political office.
lol. Standard republican behavior.
Wait, there was a Democrat that rejected it?
When Louisiana rejected the lunch program, a Democrat was still the governor; on Jan. 8, a Republican took over.
Oh, Louisiana, right, that adds up
One of the oddballs for the rejection is perhaps South Dakota who indicated that they both lacked the ability to actually administer the program without running afoul of the regulations and lacked the fund to even get it started in the first place.
Or as I took it. We’re too incompetent and poor to do this.
Imagine withholding funding for food that would keep children healthy, while denying people medical care when they get sick.
This is sickening. How does this not bother them? (Rhetorical, it’s because they try not to think about it. Then they try even harder to find a way to blame others)
Good! I would MUCH rather my taxpayer dollars be used to buy a rich person a new mansion then to FEED STARVING KIDS!
Shocking?
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Last week I read something that shocked me, even if it really shouldn’t have: Fifteen states — all but one run by Republican governors — skipped the deadline to apply for a new federally-funded program that will provide $120 per child for groceries during the summer months to families of children who already qualify for free or reduced-price lunch at school.
According to KFF, a nonprofit organization focused on health policy, seven of those states — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, South Carolina, Texas and Wyoming — are among those that have not fully extended Medicaid to the poor under the Affordable Care Act.
Imagine withholding funding for food that would keep children healthy, while denying people medical care when they get sick.
The cruelty of it is almost incomprehensible, but I’m convinced that this is all part of the punitive posture of so many of today’s Republicans — which in this case is meant to punish poverty, to intensify hardships: their version of an economic “scared straight” program.
Constantly trying to better our lives and hers, she took evening and summer classes to earn certifications and an advanced degree — and that was when she wasn’t teaching night G.E.D.
But now that it has been cut back, one 2023 report found, four in 10 families who had received that extra benefit are skipping meals.
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