The Arkansas General Assembly convened on Monday, but this year’s session will look different from any we’ve ever seen. With the pandemic raging, the legislature has adopted new procedures to minimize the spread of the virus. The Governor kicked...
Lawsuit more dangerous than ever for Arkansans during pandemic and economic crisis If a lawsuit before the Supreme Court to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) succeeds, 230,000 Arkansans would lose health coverage, increasing by 152 percent the number...
Children in Arkansas are losing health insurance coverage at a staggering rate. In September, the United States Census Bureau published yearly data from its American Community Survey, as it has each year since 2008. This year’s data is a...
Analysis shows 43 percent increase in the number of uninsured Arkansas children between 2016 and 2019 An estimated 43,000 Arkansas children were uninsured last year, a number that has increased about 43 percent since 2016, according to a new report released...
New census data on poverty, income, housing and health can help gauge how much Arkansans have lost — before and during the pandemic People across Arkansas continue to face dire economic hardship – particularly Arkansans of color and those...
Federal Policymakers Must Increase Medicaid Funding and Maintain Strong Beneficiary Protections Medicaid enrollees working in essential frontline industries are among those at risk if federal policymakers fail to provide needed increases in Medicaid funding or weaken protections for program...
With Congress considering what to include in the next round of coronavirus relief legislation and a debate over how schools can reopen safely in Arkansas, there’s a lot to update in both the state and federal policy arenas. Arkansas...
Families across the state are facing serious hardship due to the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting sharp economic decline, which likely will be severe and long-lasting. While Congress has passed a few bipartisan laws that provide some relief to families...
Trump Administration lawsuit would end health coverage for more than 299,000 Arkansans UPDATE: The Trump Administration filed its lawsuit late on Thursday, June 26, 2020. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting major recession, the Trump Administration and 18 state...
New data released June 11 shows that before the COVID-19 pandemic, Arkansas ranked as a bottom-quarter state for babies. The State of Babies Yearbook: 2020, released by early childhood development nonprofit ZERO TO THREE, comes at a critical time...