New “Public Charge” Rule Likely to Harm Children, Increase Hunger
We should all want children of immigrants to meet their full potential. It’s good for Arkansas, from the strength of our economy to our education system and community health overall.
Refusing To Measure Hunger Won’t Erase the Problem
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...
How and When the OBBBA will Harm Arkansans
The impact of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” will be enormous and wide-reaching in Arkansas. Our higher poverty rates mean cuts to health care coverage and food assistance will sharply increase hardship across the state. The legislation, which...
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.
Let’s Rejoice in a Big Win for Kids
It’s a no-brainer that students will learn better when their bellies are full.
Medicaid and SNAP in jeopardy with proposed federal cuts
The budget proposals would be extremely harmful. And they do nothing to fulfill elected officials’ promises of easing economic burdens or bringing down the price of groceries.
Teen Births: A Low Ranking Arkansas Can Actually Change
Every year, we share the national 2024 KIDS COUNT® Data Book rankings that indicate how we’re doing in child well-being, and just about every year, Arkansans respond with a disappointed sigh. This year was no different. We’re 45th. It’s...
Federal Legislation Restores Benefits to Marshallese, at Long Last
Today we are celebrating the restoration of benefits for Marshallese Arkansans!
Arkansas’s Child Poverty Rate Remains Unacceptably High
Child poverty in Arkansas held steady at an unacceptable rate of about 22%, one of the highest rates in the nation.
Arkansas has nation’s highest rate of rural Medicaid coverage for kids
65% of Arkansas's rural kids have health insurance through Medicaid and ARKids First.