Creating a Healthier Arkansas for Black Women, Part 3
Policymakers, health care professionals, and communities must work together to improve Black women’s health.
Policymakers, health care professionals, and communities must work together to improve Black women’s health.
The Governor has announced the legislature will come together again in August this year to fully phase in their previous giveaway to the rich, and maybe add more on top of that.
This should be a time that people of all political backgrounds can agree that the well-being of mothers and children should be the top priority in our public policy.
Arkansas is one of only nine states that have the most restrictive asset limit possible under federal law.
Also known as Emancipation Day or Black Independence Day, Juneteenth celebrates the day, June 19, 1865, that Black enslaved people in Texas learned that they had been declared free more than two years prior, when the Emancipation Proclamation...
Significantly higher percentages of Blacks and Hispanics reported being victims of discrimination while getting healthcare compared to their White counterparts.
In Arkansas, state lawmakers have limited the ability of local communities to raise the minimum wage; require employers to offer paid family and/or sick leave; set regulations for firearms, ammunition or firearm components; prevent discrimination against LBTQ individuals and...
AACF has urged Arkansas’s congressional delegation to help pass an economic package that helps Arkansans make ends meet, reduces poverty and racial and economic disparities, and lays the groundwork for long-term recovery and prosperity even after the COVID crisis...
assistance, we should leverage this funding to build a strong foundation for recovery for everyone who calls our state home.
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families will support data-driven legislation proposed to improve gun safety, to prevent the loss of our children to gun violence.