The Governor’s Budget is Dominated by Education Freedom Accounts At Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, we believe the state has the duty to invest in Arkansans, with a robust state budget that fully funds critical programs and...
Does our way of forecasting shortchange our future? Creating and approving the Arkansas state budget is demanding work for our governor and legislature. Predicting how much money the state will bring in from fees and taxes is both science...
The wealthy aren’t paying their fair share, and that hurts programs and policies that help all Arkansans. Our children have been back in school for weeks. Labor Day has passed. And we were teased with cooler weather last week....
The majority of Southern States have poverty rates higher than the national average.
The State should partner with IRS Direct File to benefit Arkansans. Last year the Internal Revenue Service piloted its Direct File program, a free online system for filing federal tax returns. The IRS kept the pilot program purposefully small,...
In Arkansas, undocumented immigrants contributed $188 million in state and local taxes in 2022, a number that would rise to $223 million if these taxpayers were granted work authorization.
Today the Legislature, in a special session called by the Governor, begins discussion of Senate Bill 1. According to an analysis by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, this bill will eliminate at least $450 million in tax...
More than 25% of households in Arkansas make less in a year than the state's 1% save in taxes thanks to the tax cuts enacted by our state government since 2014.
Arkansas has cut individual and corporate taxes several times over the past several years. Thanks to these cuts, Arkansas is losing about $1.8 billion annually in general revenue.
State revenue pays for services important to all of us, such as our public schools, health care, universities, and safety.