2025 Annual Report
See what happened at Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in our 2025 annual report, now available. For our list of 2025 donors, please visit aradvocates.org/donors
News
What Medicaid Work Reporting Requirements Could Mean for Arkansas Families
A new report from the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families takes a closer look at who will be affected by Medicaid work reporting requirements. The findings raise concerns for families in Arkansas, where Medicaid plays a major...
2026 State Fiscal Session Leaves Arkansas SNAP Budget Hungry for State Funding
2026 Special Session Keys Up to Further Starve SNAP and Other Programs The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) suffered a significant loss last week that will likely destabilize the program in our state. What’s more, an attempt to cut...
Supreme Court Ruling Greenlights Voter Suppression
Today the United States Supreme Court issued an opinion that will upend the Voting Rights Act. With their ruling on Louisiana v. Callais, the Supreme Court has just delt what will be one of the final blows destroying the...
Reflections on Tax Day: Our Taxes are an Investment in Families and Democracy
It may be difficult to find many of our family members, colleagues, and neighbors who get excited about April 15. Very few of us enjoy the process of filing out our tax forms. And we almost never pause to...
What They Told Us: Medicaid Stories from Hot Springs
Over the past several months, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families has traveled across the state, talking with Arkansans about their experiences with being insured through Medicaid. In nine focus groups spanning from Northwest to South Arkansas, we heard...
AACF Testimony on Arkansas’s Educational Adequacy Study
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families was asked to provide written testimony by the Arkansas House and Senate Education Committees on our recommendations of how to improve the state’s public school funding formula. The legislature is in the middle...
The Arkansas SNAP Call Center is an Important Resource As Arkansans Start to Feel the Impact of Expanded SNAP Work Requirements and Related SNAP Changes
Arkansas is the most food insecure state in the nation, and SNAP is the most powerful anti-hunger program we have.
Baby Bonds and Arkansas
A Wealth-Building Tool for Families, Communities, and the State Pete Gess Economic Policy Director Executive Summary The median household income in Arkansas now stands at $60,773. But this varies greatly across the state; while median household income in Benton...
The Governor’s FY27 Budget Request: Four Key Takeaways
The Arkansas General Assembly 2026 Fiscal Session commences on April 8. In preparation for the session, Department of Finance and Administration Secretary Jim Hudson presented the Governor’s proposed fiscal year 2026-27 general revenue budget to the legislative Joint Budget...