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Martin Luther King Jr. Commission and Salt Lake County judge urge lawmakers to consider the disadvantaged

Utah House of Representatives · January 16, 2006
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The House resolved into a Committee of the Whole for a Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights Commission program. Judge Shauna Graves Robinson urged legislators to consider how laws and funding affect the poor, the disenfranchised and youth, and to favor policies that provide a 'hand up, not a handout.'

The Utah House of Representatives resolved into a Committee of the Whole on Jan. 16 to host a program by the Martin Luther King Jr. Human Rights Commission and related ethnic affairs offices. Luce Robles, director of the State Office of Ethnic Affairs, introduced commission leaders and explained the commission’s charge under the recently restructured office.

Phyllis Carruth, chair…

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