Arkansas’s Medicaid expansion program for adults, known as ARHOME, helps keep our state’s labor force healthy. Having insurance protects part-time workers, caregivers, and lower-income families from financial hardship and provides peace of mind to many across the state. Medicaid...
The majority of Southern States have poverty rates higher than the national average.
Arkansas’s Medicaid program helps keep our state’s labor force healthy. Having insurance protects part-time workers, caregivers, and lower-income families from financial hardship and provides peace of mind to many across the state. With insurance coverage, people can address health...
The Arkansas Legislative Council just approved a new permanent rule that bans everyone, except for a few government agencies, from using electronic signatures on voter registration forms.
The State should partner with IRS Direct File to benefit Arkansans. Last year the Internal Revenue Service piloted its Direct File program, a free online system for filing federal tax returns. The IRS kept the pilot program purposefully small,...
Arkansas is one of 35 states that agreed to participate in a new federal program this year designed to combat childhood hunger. Summer EBT (electronic benefits transfer) is designed to reach low-income families. Those children who receive SNAP or...
In Arkansas, undocumented immigrants contributed $188 million in state and local taxes in 2022, a number that would rise to $223 million if these taxpayers were granted work authorization.
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is collecting stories from people who are insured through ARHOME, one of Arkansas’s Medicaid programs. Data points and numbers are important because they help us understand the impact, but at the end of...
A Blueprint for the Future DOWNLOAD THIS PUBLICATION If Arkansas is to reduce poverty and increase opportunity for its children and families, we must reduce the state’s teen birth rate. To do that, we have to change what we’re...
The Arkansas General Assembly quickly convened in a special session the week of June 17 to vote on the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission budget, another round of tax cuts, and their stances on proposed ballot measures. At Arkansas Advocates for Children...