2025 Annual Report
See what happened at Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in our 2025 annual report, now available. For our list of 2025 donors, please visit aradvocates.org/donors
What Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements Could Mean for Arkansas Families
A new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families takes a closer look at who will be affected by Medicaid work reporting requirements. The findings raise concerns for families in Arkansas, where Medicaid plays a major...
2026 State Fiscal Session Leaves Arkansas SNAP Budget Hungry for State Funding
2026 Special Session Keys Up to Further Starve SNAP and Other Programs The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) suffered a significant loss last week that will likely destabilize the program in our state. What’s more, an attempt to cut...
Supreme Court Ruling Greenlights Voter Suppression
Today the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion that will upend the Voting Rights Act. With their ruling on Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court has just delt what will be one of the final blows destroying the...
What They Told Us: Medicaid Stories from Hot Springs
Over the past several months, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families has traveled across the state, talking with Arkansans about their experiences with being insured through Medicaid. In nine focus groups spanning from Northwest to South Arkansas, we heard...
The Arkansas SNAP Call Center is an Important Resource As Arkansans Start to Feel the Impact of Expanded SNAP Work Requirements and Related SNAP Changes
Arkansas is the most food insecure state in the nation, and SNAP is the most powerful anti-hunger program we have.
The Governor’s FY27 Budget Request: Four Key Takeaways
The Arkansas General Assembly 2026 Fiscal Session commences on April 8. In preparation for the session, Department of Finance and Administration Secretary Jim Hudson presented the Governor’s proposed fiscal year 2026-27 general revenue budget to the legislative Joint Budget...
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once on the Postpartum Front
It won’t come as a surprise that I’m talking about postpartum Medicaid coverage again. For years now, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families has been at the forefront of the conversation about the need to extend postpartum coverage for...
Repost: What Baby Bonds Mean to Us, to Arkansas, and to the South
Editor’s note: The following was originally published on the website of The New School Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy. See the original here. Stay tuned for an upcoming report on Baby Bonds by Arkansas Advocates for Children...
A Deeper Dive on SNAP Cost Shifts and Their Potential Impact on Families Struggling to Make Ends Meet
On Tuesday we shared about the big decisions Arkansas lawmakers need to make this spring to shore up the state’s SNAP program due to provisions from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) taking effect in the near...