The 15 states that did not apply are Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Vermont and Wyoming.

Fuck paywalls.

imagine being so partisan you’re willing to throw all the children in your state under the bus.

Aren’t most of those states allowing child labor as well?

For these guys…the cruelty is the point

“We anticipate that our state’s full approach to serving children will continue to be successful this year without any additional federal programs that inherently always come with some federal strings attached.”

Like what?

the party that wants to put god back in schools also wants them to starve while they worship

The kids deserve it for being poor and not pulling themselves up by their bootstraps and starting a small business.

The party of “family values” and “pro-life”.

“Think of the children…when it’s time for ‘cost savings’.” – G.O.P.

There’s a Venn diagram somewhere of the states denying food aid for children and states rolling back child labor protections. From the linked article “State child labor law changes are part of a broader, troubling agenda to boost corporate profits and increase economic desperation of low-income families and children” and “While FGA lobbies for the erosion of child labor protections in states like Arkansas, Iowa, and Missouri, they are simultaneously working to limit access to anti-poverty programs like SNAP and Medicaid, block expansion of Medicaid eligibility, and promote the defunding of public education through expansion of school vouchers in the same states. Taken together, FGA’s priorities represent a radical, multilayered assault on the same low-income families whose economically desperate children are most vulnerable to recruitment by unscrupulous employers for jobs involving long hours, low wages, and hazardous conditions that harm their education, health, and well-being.”

So literally the plan is: Make em super hungry, exploit them for cheap labor while they’re young, tell em anyone who’s still hungry is a lazy leach who deserves to starve.

That banana is fucking massive

This is the best summary I could come up with:

More than eight million children in 15 states, all led by Republican governors, will be shut out of a new federal food assistance program intended to help needy families during the summer months.

Set to begin this summer, the new program will provide low-income families with $120 for each eligible child, which can be used to purchase food at grocery stores, farmers’ markets or other approved retailers when such assistance is not available in schools.

Asked why Florida did not apply for the summer food program, the state’s Department of Children and Families wrote in an email to The Orlando Sentinel last month: “We anticipate that our state’s full approach to serving children will continue to be successful this year without any additional federal programs that inherently always come with some federal strings attached.”

But he said he was heartened by the willingness of the state’s tribal nations — the Cherokee, Chickasaw and Osage — to offer the program to eligible Native and non-Native children on their reservations.

Missouri, for instance, wrote in a letter to the Agriculture Department in December that a “lack of final guidance” and the uncertainty of securing state funding posed “potential unforeseen challenges.”

Still, Caitlin Whaley, communications director for the Missouri Department of Social Services, explained: “Philosophically, we support the premise that kids should be fed in the summer, and this is an additional resource to that end.

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Good! I ONLY want my taxpayer money to be used in Courtrooms striking down Unconstitutional Laws and to pay Rich People MORE money! Fuck Starving Children!

Capitalism Jesus is proud. Fuck those lazy kids wanting handouts! Are there no workhouses?

We should be sending more kids into dirty chimneys.

Seeing Vermont on the list and their rationale of it being very difficult to meet the legislative requirements to fulfill this makes me question criticism of not signing up.

I do see some of the rationales being bullshit for many states but it doesn’t seem trivial to take advantage of this aid money from an organizational perspective.