The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as Food Stamps) has been featured heavily in recent headlines as the availability of November SNAP benefits — either in whole, in part, or not at all — has been in...
Note: Since this blog was originally published on October 28, the Trump administration announced on November 3, 2025, that it will comply with federal court orders and begin using contingency funds to partially pay November SNAP benefits as the...
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...
The KIDS COUNT Data Book tracks children’s well-being across four domains and 16 indicators. The topline numbers are not encouraging — overall, Arkansas ranks 45th in child well-being. However, the disaggregated data underlying each of those indicators by race shows consistent...
The United States House of Representatives today passed the Senate’s version of the reconciliation bill that will worsen hunger and strip health care coverage from millions of families. The bill now goes to President Donald Trump to be signed...
We need our Congressional delegation to stand up for Arkansas and reject this reckless plan that will devastate our fellow Arkansans.
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.
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 Budget Office’s overall scoring on the bill, most experts...
Even without cuts to SNAP, Arkansas has the highest food insecurity rate in the country at a rate of 18.9%.
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.