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.
As members of Congress work through the budget reconciliation process, deep cuts to Medicaid, among other programs, continue to loom. Reductions in Medicaid would be devastating to Arkansas where almost half (47.1%) of our children are insured through Medicaid,...
Arkansas is participating in the Federal Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Program for the second year in a row.
Community members gathered at the Arkansas Education Association last week to express concerns about the state’s most recent attempt to bring a Medicaid work requirement to Arkansas. The “Pathway to Prosperity” amendment adds work requirements for Medicaid in the...
Arkansans are facing a “perfect storm” of fiscal uncertainty.
Thanks to new state laws, ballot measure campaigns will have to navigate a practically impossible gauntlet to get measures on the ballot.
This session, the legislature focused on changes that chip away at local control over housing, rentals, and progressive policies.
If there is one thing I am certain of, it is that everyone is entitled to food choice autonomy. This includes choice for families participating in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps). Families know...