U.S. Senate’s Budget Bill Would Take Away Health Care from at Least 140,000 Arkansans, Put Parents and Kids at Risk of Hunger

We need our Congressional delegation to stand up for Arkansas and reject this reckless plan that will devastate our fellow Arkansans.

AACF’s Federal Town Halls: The Recap 

AACF held town halls in each of Arkansas’s four Congressional Districts.

New Maps Available: What AR Counties Stand to Lose

As many as 177,000 Arkansans could lose health coverage if the bill passes. And almost 60,000 residents are at risk of losing food assistance.

An Open Letter to Arkansas’s Congressional Delegation

Government is at its best when it works to promote the common good.

Veterans, Unhoused People, and Youth Aging Out of Foster Care Lose Out in Senate Bill 

The congressional budget bill would require veterans, unhoused people, and youth aging out of foster care to meet a work requirement 80 hours a month or risk losing food assistance.

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 […]

Ripple Effects of Proposed SNAP Cuts: The Connection Between Reductions to SNAP and Child Welfare Involvement 

Even without cuts to SNAP, Arkansas has the highest food insecurity rate in the country at a rate of 18.9%.

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.

Cutting Medicaid is Equivalent to Cutting School District Budgets

As members of Congress work through the budget reconciliation process, deep cuts to Medicaid, among other programs, continue to loom. Reductions in Medicaid would be devastating to Arkansas where almost […]

Arkansas’s New Ballot Measure Laws: A Game You Can’t Win

Thanks to new state laws, ballot measure campaigns will have to navigate a practically impossible gauntlet to get measures on the ballot.