Arkansas climbs eight spots in national child economic well-being rankings

June 21, 2016

For the first time in six years, the number of Arkansas children living in poverty decreased, according to the 2016 Annie E. Casey Foundation KIDS COUNT® Data Book. Last year the state ranked 48th, with 202,000 children living in poverty;...

A Shared Sentence: The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities

April 25, 2016

More than 5 million children in the United States (7 percent of the total child population) have had a parent incarcerated at some point in their lives, including an estimated 61,000 in Arkansas, announced Arkansas Advocates for Children and...