Cherokee youth learning about raising chickens.
The EBCI Cooperative Extension Office was full of smiles and the chirps of baby chickens ready to go to their new homes. It was distribution night for the Cherokee 4-H Youth Poultry Project as Sally Dixon and Benjamin Collette gave 10-12 chicks to each of the families in attendance at the event on the evening of Thursday, July 15.
Blair Owle, age 5, center, selects chicks on the evening of Thursday, July 15 at the EBCI Cooperative Extension Office as part of the Cherokee 4-H Youth Poultry Project. Sally Dixon, left, EBCI Cooperative Extension 4-H agent, distributed the chicks to the families. Blair’s mother, Amelia Arkansas, is shown at right. (SCOTT MCKIE B.P./One Feather photos)
Pregnant worker protections short of Indiana governor s goal
TOM DAVIES, Associated Press
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Indiana Senate President Pro Tem Rodric Bray, R-Martinsville, speaks during a news conference at the Indiana Statehouse in Indianapolis on Thursday, April 1, 2021. Supporters of boosting Indiana s cigarette tax expressed frustration Friday after Bray said Senate Republicans would not include the tax increase in their state budget plan being released next week.Tom Davies/AP
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Indiana legislators are turning aside for the second straight year an appeal from Gov. Eric Holcomb for a law requiring more businesses to provide workplace accommodations for pregnant women.
Such steps, such as longer breaks or transfers to less physical work, are cast by supporters as ways of improving Indiana’s infant mortality rate, which federal statistics show was the country’s 14th worst in 2018 with 525 infant deaths.
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