Arkansas Lawmakers Considering Dangerous Changes to State Child Labor Law
A legislative effort to change child labor laws would make it easier for businesses to hire children under 16 without their parents’ permission.
A legislative effort to change child labor laws would make it easier for businesses to hire children under 16 without their parents’ permission.
Beginning on April 1, some Arkansans enrolled in Medicaid will begin to lose their coverage for the first time since early 2020.
Some bills (some helpful, some harmful) have cleared the final hurdle and have become law, so we’re really in the thick of it now.
Gov. Sanders’ proposal to impose work requirements on people enrolled in Arkansas’s Medicaid expansion plan (ARHOME) is a misguided policy that’s already been tried — and failed. What we learned from the flawed experiment was that work requirements don’t...
Find an overview of bills on AACF’s legislative agenda and that AACF generally either supports or opposes.
There are components of this package that we may enthusiastically support, but “empowering” some Arkansas families should not come at the expense of others.
Arkansas's salaries are low compared to the rest of the country, and even when compared to states closer to home.
Week 4 While some parts of the state were weighed down with ice and stymied by power outages, business was pretty usual at the Arkansas Capitol, despite the will-it-or-won’t-it-ice debacle. We are continually grateful for the everyday Arkansans who...
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is thrilled to announce that Keesa Smith has been named our new Executive Director! Keesa will begin at AACF on February 20, and she will help us create and execute a vision for...
Work requirements don't help improve employment prospects or lift recipients who are subject to them out of poverty.