Amazon and lots of other online retailers don’t collect sales tax, and a flurry of bills this session have been filed to change that. Technically, consumers are supposed to remit those taxes on their own, but few do. These...
The following is a statement from Rich Huddleston, executive director of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families: Thank you, Arkansas policymakers. The best way to provide tax relief has dominated the first two weeks of the Arkansas legislative session....
Governor Asa Hutchinson’s new tax cut proposal includes a break, at long last, for some of the lowest income working families in our state. The bones of this plan are good – it isn’t too expensive, and it includes...
Open enrollment for the Health Insurance Marketplace ends on January 31. The end of open enrollment provides an opportunity for lawmakers and health stakeholders to celebrate the success Arkansas has had in covering the uninsured, but it also provides...
Sales taxes are hardest on low-income people in Arkansas, but cutting them would be an expensive and inefficient way of addressing that problem. The cheapest way to help low-income Arkansans who are most affected by sales tax is with Earned Income...
The Arkansas legislature recently struck a huge blow to unemployment insurance by passing HB1489, (now Act 412) which reduces total benefits to unemployed workers by $50 million a year. It also lowers the number of weeks a worker can...
A new bill filed this week will affect the daily life of many Arkansans not by saving them money on soda, but by cutting funding to Medicaid. SB725 does two things. First, it reduces the overall tax on the...
A bill for the Working Families Opportunity Act (WFOA) was filed last week and, if passed, it would be the first of its kind in Arkansas and a huge step towards reducing poverty for hard working families in our...
Poverty guidelines play two important roles, they are a scorecard for how we are doing as a state, and they help determine eligibility for dozens of programs that low-income Arkansans rely on. Because the current guidelines are outdated, they...
They’ve done it again. The legislature provided funding for prisons in this special session. About $6.3 million was funded this time to open 600 prison beds. That’s about $10,500 a bed-far more than we pay per student for K-12...
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