Arkansas’s Maternal Health Crisis: Women Across the State Share their Experiences and Views

January 23, 2025

In 2024, Arkansas Advocates held a series of focus groups with women around the state who were pregnant or had recently given birth. The corresponding white paper, Arkansas’s Maternal Health Crisis: Women Across the State Share their Experiences and...

New Report Finds Medicaid Expansion Leads to Healthier Mothers and Babies

May 22, 2019

A new report shows Arkansas saw one of the sharpest declines in the uninsured rate for women of childbearing age following the state’s decision to expand Medicaid. Between 2013 and 2017, the uninsured rate for women ages 18-44 declined...