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The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

7 of those states didn't expand Medicaid-TX, AL, MS, FL, GA, SC, WY--& have the highest rates of childhood poverty. Looking at ACS numbers for 2022, FL had 4.2M kids living in poverty, while TX had 7.3M data.census.gov/table?q=chil...

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Monstrous

I was just going to look up how this overlapped. Thank you.

The idea of a governor turning down federal money - any money, for anything - is bonkers. Turns 200 years of American political logic on its head.

It’s been happening at least since the passage of ACA. I imagine there's a strong correlation between turning down these funds and refusing federal Medicaid expansion $.

And may these states also add:

that's compassionate conservatism for ya

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