Opponents to a rule requiring “wet signatures” on Arkansas voter registration forms crowded into a public hearing room Thursday to voice concerns about barriers to voting they say would result from the rule’s adoption.
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Arkansas Medicaid recipients could lose benefits starting April 1
More than one million Arkansans receive Medicaid assistance, but an estimated 420,000 of those could be at risk of losing their benefits at the end of the Public Health Emergency on April 1. Over the next six months, the Department of Human Services will redetermine folks’ eligibility. However, administrative errors and problems making contact could unenroll people who still qualify.
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‘No more Walmart associates should be left to die’ — North Little Rock family battles for worker rights one year after loss
Janikka Perry was 38 when she died last year at a North Little Rock Walmart. She worked her entire shift, and then died in the company’s bathroom. In the wake of her death, her family has battled for increased worker protections for other Walmart associates.