Arkansas, We Need a Plan for Our Kids
In addition to our lack of state investment, we are also potentially facing the largest funding cut to critical programs in our nation’s history.
Postpartum Extension Fails in Senate Committee
We are heartbroken to see HB1004, a bill to extend postpartum Medicaid coverage, fail to get out of Senate committee today. Arkansas has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. As we have traveled around the...
AACF Testimony on June 2024 Special Session Tax Cuts
Hello, I am Keesa Smith-Brantley, Executive Director at Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families. Each year, with the Annie E. Casey Foundation, we release the KIDS COUNT Databook which is a 50-state ranking of childhood wellbeing looking at four...