After the House and Senate voted last night to pass the GOP tax bill, Rich Huddleston, Executive Director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, released the following statement: The GOP tax plan passed last night by Congress is nothing more than...
A group of legislators from states with some of the worst tax and education records in the nation convened in Arkansas last week to advise our Tax Task Force on how to be more competitive. According to the presenters...
Those making less than $55,000 will see tax cut decline A 50-state analysis of the House tax plan reveals that in Arkansas, the wealthiest 1 percent will receive the greatest share of the total tax cut, and their share...
Members of Arkansas’s Tax Reform and Relief Task Force heard this week that a state-level Earned Income Tax Credit is one of the ways to improve tax fairness and potentially simplify the tax code. This is a welcome discussion...
Today, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families celebrates 40 years of working to improve the lives of Arkansas children and families. We were founded in 1977 by a group of prominent Arkansans who believed that children needed an “independent force...
AACF’s founders believed children and families needed an independent voice at our state Capitol. Since 1977, we have served as that voice, just as our founders intended. With offices in Little Rock and Springdale, we stand up for children...
As the U.S. Senate reaches some type of decision on federal health policy this week, it’s likely that the House and Senate will turn their attention to the budget resolution and tax cuts. While the budget cuts proposed by...
Arkansas is on a bumpy, but at least downhill, path towards lower poverty rates according to census data released this morning. While still far above national averages, our child poverty rate is down to about 24 percent. It hasn’t...
Families across the nation are doing better, and public programs like SNAP and refundable tax credits continue to play a critical role in those improvements. This morning, data from the 2016 Current Population Survey was released, giving us insight...
Two staff members of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families presented recommendations for a smart budget and a state Earned Income Tax Credit to the Tax Reform and Relief Task Force last week. Executive Director Rich Huddleston discussed the...
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