Are you or someone you know interested in tackling domestic policy challenges in areas like health care, taxes, anti-poverty policy, education, and criminal justice? Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) would like to share information with you about the State...
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...
Following Senate passage of the Republican tax bill, Rich Huddleston, Executive Director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, released the following statement: Both the Senate and House tax bills are costly new giveaways to the very wealthy and...
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...
Things aren’t always as simple – or as good — as they seem. Today’s headline, that the U.S. House of Representatives voted to reauthorize the Children’s Health Insurance Program, seems worthy of celebration. And certainly, we applaud this move...
A new, bipartisan Congressional proposal could be the first step to make needed changes to the Affordable Care Act, with a goal of stabilizing insurance markets instead of undermining them. As we outlined recently, we have serious concerns about...
The recent attempts to rollback provisions of the Affordable Care Act will hit Arkansas particularly hard because of our unique – and extremely successful – health insurance system. Last week, President Trump announced two executive decisions that will cause...
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...
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