Administrative Win for the Child Care Workforce
If you’re an early childhood educator, you may now qualify for financial assistance for your own child care needs.
Bipartisan Child Tax Credit Expansion Would Have Big Impact in Arkansas
The proposed CTC expansion would significantly reduce childhood poverty across the country and in Arkansas.
In-depth study finds Arkansas’s tax system makes inequality much worse
for years we’ve been cutting income taxes in a way that primarily benefits rich corporations and the wealthiest individuals.
2024 Voters’ Guide
Whether you have children or not, the well-being of our state’s kids is critical to everyone’s future. As advocates, it’s up to us to make sure voters and candidates are aware of the issues that matter most. Election years...
Race for Results 2024
While 9.5% of all babies in Arkansas were born with low birth weights in 2021, the low birth weight rate for Black babies in our state was almost 17%.
Who Pays? 2024
The lowest-income Arkansans have a tax rate more than double that of the wealthiest people in the state.
WIC Program Faces Major Funding Cuts: Congress is Looking to Gut Resources to Support Pregnant Moms, Babies, and Young Children
Congress has made a mess by failing to review and update the Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) since they last did in 2010.
Federal Government Calls on Arkansas to do Better by Kids
Arkansas should protect children’s health as much as possible No child should lose health coverage because of red tape or unnecessary bureaucratic requirements. But more Arkansas children lost health coverage – both by number and percentage – than almost...
More than One-Third of Arkansas Medicaid Recipients Removed from Program Since April
Since April 1, more than 420,000 Arkansans enrolled in Medicaid were removed from the program, losing their coverage for the first time since early 2020.
Arkansas’s babies aren’t getting everything they need
Arkansas was among 13 states across the United States to earn a bottom ranking.