Arkansas Ranks 45th in 2025 KIDS COUNT Data Book
We encourage lawmakers and officials in Arkansas to use this detailed information to unite across party lines and respond with initiatives that invest in young people.
AACF Testimony Against SB307
We cannot both tout our low energy costs in Arkansas while putting in place a mechanism for dramatically increasing them.
AACF Testimony for SB50
February 5, 2025, Senate Committee on Public Health, Welfare, and Labor About the Bill SB50 | Sen. Justin Boyd and Rep. Carlton Wing This bill would require the Arkansas Legislative Council-Hospital and Medicaid Study Subcommittee to study issues and ideas...
The Arkansas $11 Minimum Wage is Not Enough
It is once again time for the people of Arkansas to lead by increasing the minimum wage through direct democracy.
On This Labor Day: The Failed Southern Economic Development Model
The majority of Southern States have poverty rates higher than the national average.
Bipartisan Child Tax Credit Expansion Would Have Big Impact in Arkansas
The proposed CTC expansion would significantly reduce childhood poverty across the country and in Arkansas.
Arkansas’s Child Poverty Rate Remains Unacceptably High
Child poverty in Arkansas held steady at an unacceptable rate of about 22%, one of the highest rates in the nation.
Work Requirements Still Don’t Work
Work requirements don't help improve employment prospects or lift recipients who are subject to them out of poverty.
Arkansas Should Help Protect Workers’ Wages
Arkansas makes it too easy for employers to steal wages from their employees by not requiring simple statements of what’s owed, like pay stubs, for example.