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Iowa Senate passes asset, income tests for SNAP eligibility – Iowa Capital Dispatch
Iowans receiving Supplemental Vitamin Help Program (SNAP) advantages must undergo an asset take a look at to proceed receiving advantages below a invoice handed by the Iowa Senate Wednesday.
Senate File 494 would require Iowa households on SNAP to match federal asset take a look at tips, which means recipients may have a most of between $2,750 and $4,250 in belongings to stay eligible. The invoice would additionally create a brand new system for the Iowa Well being and Human Providers Division to confirm households’ revenue, asset and identities in an effort to apply and stay eligible for these advantages.
The invoice gained nationwide consideration in January for requiring meals purchased by means of SNAP to satisfy Girls, Infants, and Youngsters Program (WIC) program necessities — placing meals like contemporary meat, sliced cheese and bagged salads off limits. This provision was dropped, however Democrats nonetheless argued the invoice would have a serious destructive impression on low-income Iowa households.
The invoice was amended earlier than coming to the ground to exclude one car from asset assessments, after listening to from starvation useful resource advocates in regards to the rising prices of vehicles and want for private transportation in most of Iowa.
A number of amendments proposed by Democrats included rising the size of time for individuals to reply to the state discover of points recognized in overview and rising the revenue threshold for eligibility.
Republicans stated the measure is important to fight fraudulent use of public profit applications. However Democrats and opponents to the invoice stated this fraud isn’t taking place in Iowa and the modifications will forestall Iowans who’re legitimately in want from accessing public help for meals.
In subcommittee conferences on the invoice, advocates with Iowa meals banks and starvation help applications stated Iowans have already got difficulties accessing authorities meals help, with SNAP participation at a 14-year low whereas meals banks reported record-high numbers of Iowans coming in.
Sen. Sarah Trone Garriott, D-West Des Moines, listed the variety of SNAP recipients in every senator’s district and the way a lot cash native grocery shops and meals suppliers see from that help. The brand new assessments and necessities may forestall individuals who qualify below new restrictions from accessing public help, Trone Garriott stated, in addition to take cash from native Iowa communities.
“Asset assessments, regardless of how excessive we set that degree, imply that people must calculate and supply proof for all the pieces they personal,” Trone Garriott stated. “That’s going to be a barrier to lots of people to finish the method, or to even apply, as a result of they must element all the pieces. I don’t know if I may present that type of proof.”
However the invoice’s flooring supervisor, Sen. Jeff Edler, R-State Middle, disagreed with Trone Garriott on the position of public help applications in native economies. These applications are “not supposed to be financial producing applications,” he stated.
“It’s imply spirited and slightly bit appalling to even recommend that we have to hold Iowans on SNAP in an effort to gasoline our financial system,” Edler stated.
Edler stated no Iowans can be faraway from SNAP except they’re discovered to not qualify for the help. He stated claims that fraud wasn’t taking place in Iowa had been false, pointing to stories like one of many state violating U.S. Division of Agriculture rules involving the SNAP program in 2018.
“We have now a duty as elected officers to make sure that tax {dollars} are being responsibly allotted,” Edler stated.
The invoice handed 34-16, and heads to the Home. A companion invoice, Home File 613, has handed by means of the Home Well being and Human Providers Committee however has not but moved by means of the appropriations course of.
It was an important date around the state for volleyball teams in Iowa, as the latest rankings were released and regional pairings in all five classes were revealed.
The two come into play once regionals reach the championship round, as the higher-ranked team will serve as the host for those games.
All five No. 1 squads remained the same, as Ankeny Centennial (Class 5A), Cedar Rapids Xavier (4A), Mount Vernon (3A), Denver (2A) and Ankeny Christian (1A) held serve.
New teams to the Top-15 include Iowa City West in 5A, Ballard in 4A, Wapsie Valley in 2A and Stanton in 1A. The entire 3A poll remained the same while Sidney made one of the biggest climbs, moving to ninth from 12th in 1A.
Regional play for 1A and 2A begins Oct. 21 with 3A, 4A and 5A starting Oct. 22. The state tournament is scheduled for Nov. 4-7 in Coralville from the Xtream Arena. Complete regional pairings can be found on Bound.
Class 5A
1. Ankeny Centennial; 2. Pleasant Valley; 3. Ankeny; 4. West Des Moines Dowling; 5. Indianola; 6. Waukee Northwest; 7. Cedar Falls; 8. Cedar Rapids Prairie; 9. Waukee; 10. Iowa City Liberty; 11. West Des Moines Valley; 12. Sioux City East; 13. Iowa City West; 14. Iowa City High; 15. Linn-Mar.
Class 4A
1. Cedar Rapids Xavier; 2. Sioux City Bishop Heelan; 3. North Scott; 4. Clear Creek-Amana; 5. Lewis Central; 6. Pella; 7. Glenwood; 8. Carlisle; 9. Marion; 10. Adel-ADM; 11. Norwalk; 12. Sergeant Bluff-Luton; 13. MOC-Floyd Valley; 14. Ballard; 15. Grinnell.
Class 3A
1. Mount Vernon; 2. Western Christian; 3. West Delaware; 4. Dubuque Wahlert; 5. Davenport Assumption; 6. Sioux Center; 7. Carroll Kuemper; 8. Mid-Prairie; 9. Cherokee; 10. Wilton; 11. Solon; 12. Anamosa; 13. Roland-Story; 14. Clarinda; 15. Nevada.
Class 2A
1. Denver; 2. Eddyville-Blakesburg-Fremont; 3. Dyersville Beckman; 4. Dike-New Hartford; 5. Aplington-Parkersburg; 6. South Hardin; 7. Boyden-Hull; 8. Pella Christian; 9. Iowa City Regina; 10. Hinton; 11. Grundy Center; 12. Sumner-Fredericksburg; 13. Wapsie Valley; 14. West Burlington; 15. Shenandoah.
Class 1A
1. Ankeny Christian; 2. Holy Trinity; 3. Saint Ansgar; 4. Riverside; 5. BCLUW; 6. Janesville; 7. North Tama; 8. Don Bosco; 9. Sidney; 10. River Valley; 11. Akron-Westfield; 12. Stanton; 13. Fremont-Mills; 14. Southwest Valley; 15. Gladbrook-Reinbeck.
Week 6 of the 2024 Iowa high school football season has wrapped up, and High School on SI is continuing its weekly computer rankings for the season.
The Dowling Maroons kept their top five placing in this week’s 5A Iowa computer rankings after a thrilling 41-35 victory over Ankeny Centennial. They face a strong Urbandale team on Friday, to keep their momentum going.
The top of the 5A computer rankings stay the same this week as the Bettendorf Bulldogs take home another win, this time defeating Kennedy 33-14. The Bulldogs look forward to Friday, where they will travel to Davenport Central in hopes to hold their place in the standings.
SBLive’s formula was created using its linear algebra-based ranking algorithm inspired by the Colley Bias-Free Ranking Method. Colley’s Method was created by Wes Colley, Ph.D., an astrophysicist at the University of Alabama at Huntsville. He devised his algorithm to help address the subjectivity and controversy regarding BCS college football selections in the 1990s and early 2000s, using a method that used no subjective variables.
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Here are SBLive’s latest Iowa football computer rankings, as of Oct. 7, 2024:
IOWA HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COMPUTER RANKINGS
CLASS 5A | CLASS 4A
CLASS 3A | CLASS 2A
CLASS 1A | CLASS A
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JELD-WEN, a manufacturer of windows and doors in Grinnell, has announced it will be laying off 152 workers effective Nov. 7.
The announcement was made on Iowa’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) site.
The company, based in Charlotte, North Carolina, was founded in 1960 and has 18,000 employees, with operating facilities in 16 countries in North America and Europe with 2023 sales of $4.3 billion, according to the company’s website.
JELD-WEN did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Wednesday.
Earlier this year, JELD-WEN announced the closing of its Hawkins, Wisconsin facility, affecting 338 employees, and in Vista, California, resulting in the loss of 110 jobs.
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