As we honor veterans this week, it’s important to remember that they often have complex health needs when they return home from their service. In Arkansas, our Medicaid program provides critical access to health services for veterans – a...
Arkansas Not on Track for Insurance Coverage for Arkansas’s Children Every year, our Finish Line report provides a snapshot of the previous year’s progress toward ensuring all children have insurance coverage in our state. Last year was an uncommon...
A Blueprint for the Future DOWNLOAD THIS PUBLICATION If Arkansas is to reduce poverty and increase opportunity for its children and families, we must reduce the state’s teen birth rate. To do that, we have to change what we’re...
Several noteworthy issues arose during this year’s session. Find our summary here.
Arkansas, once a leader among states for lowering the uninsurance rate for kids, now finds itself ranked among the bottom 10 states for children's insurance coverage.
We are pleased to see so much focus and attention in Arkansas on reducing our state’s maternal mortality rate. It’s important that, as this discussion continues, we do not lose sight of the importance of critical public policy changes to...
Arkansas should protect children’s health as much as possible No child should lose health coverage because of red tape or unnecessary bureaucratic requirements. But more Arkansas children lost health coverage – both by number and percentage – than almost...
Since April 1, more than 420,000 Arkansans enrolled in Medicaid were removed from the program, losing their coverage for the first time since early 2020.
65% of Arkansas's rural kids have health insurance through Medicaid and ARKids First.
Arkansas’s 2023 General Assembly passed 889 bills. Many of these new laws will impact Arkansas’s kids. From depression-screening coverage for pregnant women and new moms to free school meals for more kids, our Kids at the Capitol 2023 Legislative...