Historically, changes in Arkansas’ child welfare system have been closely tied to high profile incidents of severe abuse or deaths in cases involving child maltreatment and the resulting public and legislative responses to these events. It has been more...
This week the nation celebrates the 40th birthday of Medicaid. It was signed into law on July 30, 1965. And 40 years later it is providing 605,000 Arkansas residents with access to life-saving and life preserving health care. In...
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) took issue with comments made recently by Governor Huckabee concerning reform of the state and federal Medicaid system that provides health care for many of the state’s families. “We don’t agree with...
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, in conjunction with Arkansas Center for Health Improvement, Community Health Centers of Arkansas and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) joined hundreds of communities around the country in spotlighting the 45 million Americans,...
As Cover the Uninsured Week is launched in Arkansas, a new analysis of government data shows that millions of uninsured adults in the U.S. suffer with chronic illness and have medical needs that are unmet. Nearly half (45 percent)...
After the historic special legislative session of 2003-2004 in response to the Lake View School funding lawsuit, the 2005 Legislative Session was slated to be a continuation of the state’s education adequacy reform efforts. However, this session was different...
This week, the Tax Foundation released its 2005 report on tax burden by state, showing Arkansas to be ranked 11th in the country for state and local tax burden. However, there are questions concerning the accuracy of the foundation’s...
Few people would dispute that the local property tax on real estate and personal property is the most unpopular tax in Arkansas. The long history of political controversy around the property tax – with its continual constitutional amendments changing...
Many of us have seen the signs which advertise “Fast Cash: All it Takes is your Good Word. No Credit Check!” I’m sure many of us have been tempted to use such a service or, indeed, have used such...
n 1997, Arkansas created the ARKids First Program, an expansion of Medicaid to cover children in low-income working families up to 200 percent of the federal poverty line. Since that time, Arkansas Advocates for Children & Families (AACF) has...