Statement from Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) Executive Director Rich Huddleston: AACF strongly supports the Private Option. Over 100,000 Arkansans now have affordable health coverage and the financial security that comes along with it, some for...
What is the Private Option? A new kind of affordable, private health coverage for up to 250,000 Arkansans who lack health insurance. A market-based, fiscally responsible model of covering low-income adults. A law passed by a bipartisan supermajority of...
Anita Geiger is a mother, a student, and an employee from Conway. She hasn’t had any health coverage in the past six years and she’s made sacrifices to keep her daughter healthy. “You look at your child’s face...
One of the most debated issues of this fiscal legislative session will likely be Arkansas’s Private Option. As legislators consider whether to continue to ensure that 250,000 Arkansans can access affordable health coverage, it’s important to have the facts...
Believe it or not, lawmakers will be talking about issues other than the Private Option during the 2014 fiscal session which begins today. One of those issues is how to best spend funds aimed at helping poorer students perform...
In our fifth installment of our #KeepARCoverage series, we are introduced to Hope Smith, who lives and works in Jonesboro. Hope is passionate about the violin and she’s sharing that passion by teaching would-be violinists in her community....
Arkansas’s Current Minimum Wage Is Inadequate A fair and adequate minimum wage is critical to a strong economic system that both supports the economic well-being of workers and their families and meets the labor needs of businesses. Unfortunately, although...
This is a quick and simple way to see where funding for Arkansas P-12 education comes from, how it’s used, and AACF’s recommendations for how to support low-income students effectively (Please feel free to share this image. It prints...
While a comprehensive plan for improving the Arkansas tax system is beyond the scope of this brief, there are some obvious changes that Arkansas could make to (1) strengthen the revenue foundation for the services needed to improve the...
Arkansas is home to one of the largest populations of Marshallese individuals in the world — people who were born in the Republic of the Marshall Islands but moved here for employment and to have a better life. They...