Over the past several months, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families has traveled across the state, talking with Arkansans about their experiences with being insured through Medicaid. In nine focus groups spanning from Northwest to South Arkansas, we heard...
A new national economic report predicts that Arkansas will lose 24,000 jobs if the Trump administration reaches its target numbers for mass deportations. Of those, 11,000 jobs would be those held by U.S.-born citizens. A joint report published this...
Everyone has a lot on their plates right now, so it’s understandable if you’re confused about what’s going on with the health system — particularly what’s going on with Medicaid. Maybe you remember seeing something in the news about...
It may be difficult to find many of our family members, colleagues, and neighbors who get excited about April 15. Very few of us enjoy the process of filing out our tax forms. And we almost never pause to...
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families was asked to provide written testimony by the Arkansas House and Senate Education Committees on our recommendations of how to improve the state’s public school funding formula. The legislature is in the middle...
On Tuesday we shared about the big decisions Arkansas lawmakers need to make this spring to shore up the state’s SNAP program due to provisions from the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (H.R. 1) taking effect in the near...
Arkansas has $1.8 billion in its Catastrophic Reserve Fund, and we are on the brink of a catastrophe that requires state funding.
During the 2025 legislative session, the Arkansas General Assembly passed HB1653, now Act 636. You can read AACF’s testimony against this piece of legislation here. This law allows the number of psychiatric residential treatment facility (PRTF) beds in Arkansas to...
In addition to our lack of state investment, we are also potentially facing the largest funding cut to critical programs in our nation’s history.
Government is at its best when it works to promote the common good.