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Talk Business & Politics: Maternal health, gender equity

By Chris Counts,

7 hours ago

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A state working group focused on maternal health returns its first list of recommendations. What comes next?

Talk Business & Politics host Roby Brock talked with a panel to discuss the issue – DHS Medicaid director Janet Mann, Department of Health secretary Renee Mallory and Arkansas Surgeon General Dr. Kay Chandler.

Roby then talks with Anna Beth Gorman from the Women’s Foundation of Arkansas and Tamika Edwards from Southwest Power Pool to discuss an annual gender equity scorecard that has opened for information. What does it hope to measure? What trends have we been seeing in recent years?

Talk Business & Politics airs Sunday at 9:30 a.m. on FOX 16. For more coverage, head to TalkBusiness.net .

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