The state said this week it will not participate in a federal program that would provide $120 in benefits to each eligible child, citing administrative hurdles.
We're now seeing red states refusing federal aid because 1) it shows the federal government isn't the demon they make it out to be and 2) if they don't accept federal funds, they don't have to accept federal stipulations like "you can't not give this to poor gay children" and "Black children deserve to eat too."
Don’t forget the “welfare queens” lies that a lot of the right believes. I know a lot of idiots that believe poor people are poor because they’re lazy.
Good things happening while a Democrat is in the Whitehouse is bad for business. If anyone ever asks the GOP why they rejected the funds it'll be some lie about illegal immigrants getting the money.
sadly you are correct. Ask most conservatives about feeding white or christian children they are for it. Sudden including all those other kinds of people and they would rather let their own starve rather give help to 1 person they think is unworthy.
The problem here is that the federal government didn't provide the framework and services for states to use this federal aid - it's up to the states to each create the new infrastructure and data collection/reporting services themselves. That's a backwards arse way of doing it. The federal government should have created the necessary services and given the states access.
We give states way too much power when it comes to these types of policies. I grew up on the free lunch program and a lot of times it was the best meal I can get. I could never in good conscience suggest that kids don't deserve to have free lunch and breakfast. Especially if they have to be there.
nothing is preventing someone from creating a bill that would offer financial assistance to helping those who cant afford to move to "greener pastures".
Missouri’s education department has largely cited administrative hurdles to dispersing the benefits — which requires coordination between schools, the education department and social services department. The state needed to gather eligibility information about students in a form it didn’t previously collect and share data across platforms that didn’t necessarily share the same format.
Holy shit that's depressing. Hundreds of thousands of kids will go hungry in Missouri because the government doesn't know how to set up EDI?
Yeah, but that's the whole point of integration as a service. You take the forms, map the data, and nobody has to change their procedures. The biggest headache will be data security and access control, but hopefully they have that figured out already or they are already fucked.
Their response is probably: "If the kids are hungry, they can get summer jobs in a meat packing plant for under minimum wage. And then they can continue to work there when school starts back up. In fact, forget school and go right to packing that meat with your tiny, easily severed fingers!"
Red state shithole being a red state shithole. Remember, they don't want to abort babies because they'd miss the chance to torture children for their entire lives.
Are there federal bodies or third parties that can assist in these measures? Just because the state is fucked and run by terrorists, shouldn't mean that someone can't step up and help. I knows it's not that easy geographically, but every little bit helps.
The state can't stop charities but the why it most often works in america the federal gov just provided big blocks of funding to each state. But don't if the had excepted it most of it would have gone to make a a new football stadium while also providing a big tax write off the guy that owns the team. Ah american law american order.
I live in Iowa, so I understand the mis-appropriation if funds, and it's disgusting. The lack of oversight is astounding and even when it's discovered the consequences are nothing more than operating costs. It's dumb
If you read the article it has nothing to do with "the state being run by terrorists" - it's that they don't have the infrastructure and data collection necessary to do it. They have pledged that they will focus on getting it implemented so they can do it.
McGowin pledged that going forward the state will “focus on implementing the system changes necessary to facilitate participation in summer EBT programs in future years.”
But for Missouri to participate in next year’s program, “the state’s data collection systems need to be addressed well in advance,” McGowin said.
“The current P-EBT programs have required data to be collected from schools that DESE does not normally collect,” she said. “We must then address how the data can be most efficiently and effectively shared with DSS, and shared in a way that more seamlessly integrates with DSS’ benefit administration systems.”
Woody said the state’s pledge to make changes to better operate the program in future years is “the only bright spot.”
Maybe the federal government should be the ones building these data collection services so that the states simply have to opt-in and use the government created facilities?
They are self proclaimed terrorists. Also, withholding funding so that children starve is pretty fucked up and calling them terrorists is gentle compared to what they deserve. That's not sound fiscal responsibility, that evil incarnate. Defense of that view is completely fucked as well, terrorist.
Our governor is sitting on a tax surplus that was $5,000,000,000 a few months ago. (That's billion, with a 'b') Just over the state line the state of Kansas literally just handed its surplus back to taxpayers in the form of a special tax cut. (They have a Democratic governor.) That five billion of OUR MONEY could do a lot to mitigate the problems in our state, but the folks in Jeff City haven't figured out a way to feasibly give it away to their golf buddies yet.
Maybe the 'terrorist' tag is a little dramatic, but the Republican Party here in Missouri is literally making bad things happen in order to blame the consequences on the Federal Government. They've controlled this state for 20 years and in that time their sole mission has been figuring out ways to enrich themselves off the tax money produced by Kansas City and St. Louis.
It's this new experiment, they were running out of space to invade in Palestine. Besides killing the Palestinians is becoming to easy considering the weaponry difference.
They decided to aim for some harder goals something that can fight a little bit back.
Yknow, it felt like 5-6 years ago you could make a legitimate argument that things were looking up. Don't get me wrong, we've always had tons of problems, but it seemed like there was a chance.
I've given up. If the tides change enough for me to stay/come back if I make it out, I gladly will. I truly do love this state, it's absolutely gorgeous. There's so much good here, and so much more good that could be, but we just have to keep voting in people to fuck it up it seems.
Waiting to have some more experience in my field, and we'll see from there. Ideally in the New England area because I actually know people there, but frankly it'll be where ever I get a job.
We need a nonprofit or something that will help low income red state families relocate and find affordable housing and jobs in blue states. Red states are third-world and deserve a refugee program.
What they really want is some of their voters to move to blue states and start voting for GOP policies anyway, hoping to turn those states red as well and drag them down to their level.
And yes, there are plenty of morons who will gladly flee red states because they're unliveable, then start voting in favor of enacting the same policies in their new state that caused them to leave their home state in the first place, because people are fucking stupid.
blew my mind.
see also anything else by thom hartmann
and
the Lewis Powell memo.
and
The Democracy Project
by David Graeber
(buy it at a used bookstore with cash)
That's because nobody wants to work in administration for less than $25 per hour which the state can't pay without raising ever bodies taxes that no one wants to pay!