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Human Trafficking Investigation Leads to Rescue of 4 Victims, 1 Arrest
Updated: 6:39 PM CDT Mar 19, 2024 PEARL, Miss. — Four victims were rescued, and one arrest was made as a result of a week-long human trafficking investigator training that culminated in an operation in Pearl. Attorney General Lynn Fitch made the announcement Tuesday. Fitch said her office held the training to help officers understand…
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Bill Would Make Kindergarten Mandatory for Michigan Children
By Lori Higgins | March 12, 2024, 5:22pm CDT Lawmakers want to make kindergarten attendance mandatory in Michigan to improve academic achievement — and the head of the state’s largest district says such a requirement could also help address chronic absenteeism. Sen. Dayna Polehanki, a Democrat from Livonia who introduced a bill to make kindergarten mandatory, said it’s necessary…
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Michigan’s High School Graduation Rate Increases for the Second Rear in a Row
By Isabel Lohman, Bridge Michigan and Lori Higgins | February 23, 2024, 5:19pm CST Michigan’s high school graduation rate was 81.77% in 2023, the second year in a row the rates have increased and a promising sign that students are continuing to recover from the disruptive pandemic. Last year’s graduation rate was 81.01%. The dropout rate declined slightly…
Read MoreAdvocates pressure Adams administration to close Rikers Island by City Council’s 2027 deadline
By John Dias On March 8, 2024 NEW YORK — Mayor Eric Adams is moving too slow. That’s what many claim is happening with the closure of Rikers Island. Dozens rallied in front of City Hall Friday demanding Adams shift money around in his budget to help make the 2027 deadline. “It was just a madhouse,” Larry Goodson said. Goodson…
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Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signs tough-on-crime legislation
By Sara Cline On March 5, 2024 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Eight recently passed bills, including legislation that will treat all 17-year-olds who commit crimes as adults and harsher penalties for carjackings, were signed by Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday. Spurred by violent crime in Louisiana cities and a new tough-on-crime governor, the GOP-dominated…
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Prisoners in Texas and Florida face biggest risk of increasingly deadly heat
Almost 45% of detention facilities on US mainland suffered rise in hazardous heat days between 1982 and 2020, study says By Nina Lakhani On March 5, 2024 Deadly heat is threatening the lives of America’s ageing incarcerated population, who are trapped in increasingly hot and humid conditions as the climate emergency escalates, new research has…
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Backlash against women’s rights threatening progress, says UN chief
By Adla Massoud On March 8, 2024 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned on Friday that a “backlash” against women’s rights was threatening progress around the world. “The global crises we face are hitting women and girls hardest – from poverty and hunger to climate disasters, war and terror,” Mr Guterres said in remarks marking International Women’s Day.…
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It’s International Women’s Day: How women’s rights fared in the past year
By Victoria Bisset, Adela Suliman, and Naomi Schanen On March 8, 2024 LONDON — It’s International Women’s Day. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres has urged faster action to achieve gender equality, amid what he described as “a fierce backlash against women’s rights.” “Billions of women and girls face marginalization, injustice and discrimination, while the persistent…
Read MoreOrganised backlash unravels progress in women’s rights: research
By AFP On March 8, 2024 Conservative counter-campaigns are unravelling global advances in women’s rights, the latest “backlash” in a series dating to the 1980s, activists and experts warned ahead of International Women’s Day on Friday. Organised and politicised, the counter-movement unpicks abortion rights, fuels online hate and harassment and encourages domestic violence, researchers say.…
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