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'Laura Kellams'

Legislature speeding its way to making it easier to exploit child labor UPDATE

The onslaught of bad bills coming out of this General Assembly is nearly impossible to comprehensively follow. One especially pernicious proposal we haven't talked about is up for a final vote in the Senate today: House Bill 1410, dubbed the "Youth Hiring Act of 2023" would dispense with the requirement that businesses who want to hired children under age 16 receive a permit from the state Department of Labor.
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Arkansas children suffer more than almost any in the country, per new report

“Lack of political will and lack of targeted investments in our children keeps Arkansas near the bottom of the states," Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families Executive Director Rich Huddleston said. "While Arkansas’s lawmakers this week begin debating giving generous tax cuts to the wealthiest Arkansans, we’ve got more children living in poverty, more students lacking proficiency in reading and math, and more teens giving birth than in most other states.”
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Nobody beats Arkansas (at beating kids in school)

The scientifically awful practice of corporal punishment traumatizes a new generation.

Rep. Dan Douglas files bill to extend in-state tuition to currently ineligible immigrant students

Rep. Dan Douglas (R-Rogers) filed a bill today that would grant in-state college tuition to all students who have resided in Arkansas for at least three years and graduated from a high school (or received a high school equivalency diploma) in Arkansas. The bill makes no explicit mention of undocumented immigrants, but in practice it would appear to allow undocumented students who graduate from high school in the state to be eligible for in-state tuition.
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