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Cherokee Nation chief highlights Summer EBT, elder farmers market and MMIP coordination in State of the Nation
Summary
Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. told the tribal council the nation will bring federal Summer EBT funds to children on the reservation, launch an elders farmers market pilot, and continue work on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons coordination after a veto of a related legislative amendment.
Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. told the Cherokee Nation Tribal Council on May 12 that the nation is resuming a federal Summer EBT program for low-income children on the reservation, launching a pilot Elders Farmers Market program and continuing interagency work on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) cases.
The chief said the Summer EBT benefit will be $120 per eligible child and that Cherokee Nation is administering the program to the geographic extent of the reservation. “I can't think of a better way to invest than that this summer,” Hoskin said, describing an administrative investment of about $900,000 that he said brings roughly $6,000,000 into the hands of households…
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