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...
Looking back at four decades of progress…and ahead to the future At our 40th Anniversary Gala, we released a very special video. In it, we hear from AACF founders, Executive Directors past and present, policymakers, and partners about how...
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...
AACF’s founders believed children and families needed an independent voice at our state Capitol. Since 1977, we have served as that voice, just as our founders intended. With offices in Little Rock and Springdale, we stand up for children...
A statement from Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families Today, the Senate announced that there will be no vote on the latest version of an Affordable Care Act repeal because this last-ditch effort fell short of the votes needed...
As the U.S. Senate reaches some type of decision on federal health policy this week, it’s likely that the House and Senate will turn their attention to the budget resolution and tax cuts. While the budget cuts proposed by...
Recently, we shared our analysis of the latest ditch effort by some members of Congress to repeal the Affordable Care Act. This week, Governor Hutchinson publicly shared that he joined a small group of Republican governors who gave input...
Arkansas is on a bumpy, but at least downhill, path towards lower poverty rates according to census data released this morning. While still far above national averages, our child poverty rate is down to about 24 percent. It hasn’t...
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