Arkansas is making the wrong investments
sion by the Arkansas Legislature to approve a more than half-a-billion income tax cut that will disproportionately benefit the wealthy and profitable corporations.
AACF Statement on COVID-19 Summer 2021 Surge
Arkansas is facing a health care crisis impacting the health and safety of our families and children, our schools, our health care system and health care workforce, and our economy. With the progression of COVID-19 variants and Arkansas’s low...
The American Rescue Plan & the Continued Need for State Investments
Arkansas lawmakers must spend relief where it’s most needed The American Rescue Plan is providing Arkansas with a historic opportunity: State and local lawmakers can use this substantial federal aid to help communities hit hardest by the pandemic and...
We sent this memo to candidates, urging them to keep kids top of mind
The mission of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is to ensure that all children and their families have the resources and opportunities to lead healthy and productive lives and to realize their full potential. As you are considering...
Children’s Health Coverage in Arkansas: Losing Ground at a Rapid Pace
Children in Arkansas are losing health insurance coverage at a staggering rate. In September, the United States Census Bureau published yearly data from its American Community Survey, as it has each year since 2008. This year’s data is a...
AACF Statement on the Reopening of Arkansas Public Schools
The mission of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) is to ensure that all children and families have the resources and opportunities they need to lead healthy and productive lives and realize their full potential. We recognize that...
AACF Statement: Hate Crime Proposal Is a Step To Building Equity
Arkansas is one of the last three states without a Hate Crimes Law. We also have one of the highest numbers of hate crime groups per capita in the nation. Today, a bipartisan group of Arkansas General Assembly members,...
ACA repeal more dangerous than ever for Arkansans during pandemic and economic crisis
Trump Administration lawsuit would end health coverage for more than 299,000 Arkansans UPDATE: The Trump Administration filed its lawsuit late on Thursday, June 26, 2020. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting major recession, the Trump Administration and 18 state...
Arkansas must do more to support our health care workers fighting COVID-19
Updated 4/15/2020, 3:15 PM As most Arkansans continue to try to adjust to life during a global pandemic and to find a “new normal,” health care workers, like doctors and nurses, are at the center of this public health...
Appeals Court delivers another blow to Arkansas’s Medicaid work reporting requirement
Will it finally be abandoned? On Friday, Feb. 14, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously upheld the District Court’s decision to strike down Arkansas’s addition of work-reporting requirements to its...