IRS Direct File Would Save Arkansans More Than $150 Million a Year

The State should partner with IRS Direct File to benefit Arkansans. Last year the Internal Revenue Service piloted its Direct File program, a free online system for filing federal tax […]

Bipartisan Child Tax Credit Expansion Would Have Big Impact in Arkansas 

The proposed CTC expansion would significantly reduce childhood poverty across the country and in Arkansas.

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. 

Work Requirements Still Don’t Work

Work requirements don’t help improve employment prospects or lift recipients who are subject to them out of poverty.

Arkansas Should Help Protect Workers’ Wages

Arkansas makes it too easy for employers to steal wages from their employees by not requiring simple statements of what’s owed, like pay stubs, for example.

New Census Data Point to Importance of Government Relief

Overall, federal investments shielded many Arkansas families from more severe hardship and helped shorten the country’s economic crisis.

Arkansas Legislature can choose not to tax student loan forgiveness

Our state Legislature needs to decide if we want to follow along and treat student loan forgiveness as tax-free.

Arkansas has room for improvement in providing quality education

Educating the next generation of Arkansans is one of our greatest responsibilities.

Incremental Improvements in Economic Well-Being Fall Too Short for Arkansas’s Children

A state budget that puts more dollars toward programs to help children and families, like childcare for infants and toddlers, early childhood education, affordable housing, and health care for moms and babies would do more to help all Arkansans.

Arkansas Advocates 2022 Special Legislative Session Recap

We hope to carry this momentum into the 2023 Regular Legislative Session, as we can be sure there will be many bills to support and defend against that will affect the lives of Arkansas’s children and families.