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Featured News

  • Arkansas Ranks 45th in 2025 KIDS COUNT Data Book

    We encourage lawmakers and officials in Arkansas to use this detailed information to unite across party lines and respond with initiatives that invest in young people.

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  • House Tax and Spending Cuts Bill Reveals Policy Priorities

    Early on Thursday morning (May 22), the U.S. House of Representatives narrowly approved its sweeping tax and spending cuts bill. While details are still emerging and we await the Congressional Budget Office’s overall scoring on the bill, most experts agree that the bill will add $3-$5 trillion to the deficit over the next decade.  Savings […]

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  • Proposed Federal Budget Cuts would Harm State Budget and Devastate Tens of Thousands of Arkansans

    Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP would increase hardship and deepen the effects of poverty at a time when many Arkansas families already struggle to put food on the table and afford health insurance, child care, and housing.

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  • Arkansas Combatting Increased Summer Hunger with Summer EBT

    Arkansas is participating in the Federal Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Program for the second year in a row.

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  • Why to Advocate Even When You Are Tired

    If you’re looking for a “why” to keep yourself going, look around you and don’t forget to look in the mirror as well.

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  • The Arkansas $11 Minimum Wage is Not Enough 

    It is once again time for the people of Arkansas to lead by increasing the minimum wage through direct democracy.

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  • Medicaid 101

    Medicaid is an essential health insurance program that provides coverage to hundreds of thousands of Arkansans.

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  • The Disconnect Between Income and Taxes in Arkansas

    The wealthy aren’t paying their fair share, and that hurts programs and policies that help all Arkansans. Our children have been back in school for weeks. Labor Day has passed. And we were teased with cooler weather last week. It feels like autumn is in the air. At this point the start of the 2025 […]

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  • Lost in Transition: Maya’s Story Highlights the Impact of Medicaid Barriers on Postpartum Care in Arkansas

    Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is collecting stories from people who are insured through ARHOME, one of Arkansas’s Medicaid programs. Data points and numbers are important because they help us understand the impact, but at the end of the day, numbers are only part of the picture. Storytelling is imperative to understanding the impact […]

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Recent Blog Posts

Tax and Budget 102: Strong Families Make for a Strong Arkansas

October 1, 2025

Investing in all families grows the Arkansas economy. Many Arkansas families struggle to meet basic expenses, such as housing, food, transportation, medicine, and child care costs. The goal is for income to exceed these expenses, and parents work hard...

Doing Right by Families: Arkansas is Leading in Kinship Placements — Let’s Keep the Momentum Going

September 30, 2025

As we draw to the end of National Kinship Care Month this September, we continue to honor the grandparents, other relatives, and close family friends who step up to raise children whose parents cannot. Importantly, this National Kinship Care...

Refusing To Measure Hunger Won’t Erase the Problem

September 29, 2025

Arkansas has the highest hunger rate in the nation. We know this because our federal government measures it — officially referred to as food insecurity — and publishes the results each year. With this data, we’re able to compare...

AACF Statement on ADE Changes to School Readiness Assistance Program

September 24, 2025

AACF calls on the Arkansas Department of Education to delay implementation and consider community input.

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Recent Publications

Eyes on the Finish Line

September 3, 2025

We Cannot Stop Until Every Child Has Health Insurance All Arkansans want our children to grow up healthy, safe, and supported. For more than two decades, Arkansas has worked to expand access to health coverage as a foundation for...

Sex Education in Arkansas

August 8, 2025

Data Demonstrates Disparity Across School Districts Despite decades of research showing the significant positive impact of sexual health education on children’s long-term outcomes, Arkansas students still generally have limited access to such programs in school. According to analysis of...

2024 Annual Report

June 30, 2025

See what happened at Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in our 2024 annual report, now available. For our list of 2024 donors, please visit aradvocates.org/donors

Kids at the Capitol: 2025 Legislative Summary

June 4, 2025

Between January 13 and May 5, Arkansas’s 95th General Assembly passed 1,043 bills. Many of the new laws will impact Arkansas’s children and their families. From fast-tracked Medicaid coverage for certain pregnant women to universal free school breakfasts, our...

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