For more than 35 years, the KIDS COUNT Data Book has ranked states on child well-being overall and in four domains: Economic Well-Being, Education, Health, and Family and Community. In 2026, these rankings remain an important tool. However, starting...
New Scoring Index from the Annie E. Casey Foundation to Increase Accountability by Showing How Arkansas’s Policies and Investment Affect Children’s Daily Lives Sharp increases in the children’s uninsured rate and the number of young children not in school...
Data Across 50 States Show Struggles with Poverty, Health Indicators, But Hopes for Recovery Remain, Annie E. Casey Foundation Finds The number of Arkansas’s children going without health insurance surged dramatically between 2018 and 2019, continuing a troubling decline...
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) is conducting a Story Collection Project on the Arkansas Medicaid program. We want to highlight what is working and what needs to be made better for Arkansans using Medicaid. We want you...
We are officially in the “home stretch” of the 93rd General Assembly. The session is expected to wrap up Tuesday, April 27, so bills that haven’t passed in at least one legislative chamber by now are not likely to...
As we near the end of the 93rd General Assembly’s 2021 session, things are jumping into hyperdrive. Legislators are scrambling to have their bills heard in committees and on the chamber floors before the session concludes. Because of that,...
It was a contentious week in the General Assembly, with the Legislature overriding a veto for the first time since Governor Hutchinson took office. As you may have read, it was regarding legislation to deprive transgender children of certain health...
Happy Friday! It was another fast-paced week at the Capitol, and we hope you are getting ready to enjoy some of the wonderful weather forecast for the weekend. Below is an overview of bills that Arkansas Advocates either supports...
We hope everyone enjoyed a slightly slower week, with both chambers on Spring Break recess Wednesday through Friday. Be sure to catch your breath over the weekend, because there are a lot of bills (12 from our list alone)...
This week marks the anniversary of the World Health Organization recognizing COVID-19 as a global pandemic. In recognition of a year’s work mostly spent on Zoom and under extraordinary circumstances, the staff of AACF will be taking the afternoon...