As record-breaking numbers of Americans file for unemployment, Congressional action will bring relief to struggling families during this time of national emergency. Arkansas must also act quickly to ensure that vulnerable Arkansans can get the help they need and...
Latino children in Arkansas are almost four times more likely to be uninsured than non-Latino children, according to new report released today. That disparity is one of the nation’s largest. The report, released by the Georgetown University Health Policy...
Arkansas’s adult population is at higher-than-average risk of becoming seriously ill if they acquire COVID-19, according to a an issue brief published this week by the Kaiser Family Foundation. There are several reasons for this, including the age of...
The economy has undergone a record-long expansion over the past decade, and that has lead some economists to worry that a recession is on the horizon. The coronavirus pandemic may or may not cause a recession — the Federal...
Making Medicaid more flexible can help Arkansas and its families in the fight against COVID-19, and Arkansas can take advantage of several options in an emergency like this one. Tricia Brooks, research professor at the Georgetown Center for Children...
Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Wednesday, March 11, held a live-streamed press event to announce the state’s first presumptive positive case of the 2019 novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Gov. Hutchinson also announced a ban on all out-of-state travel for state...
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families calls on business leaders, elected officials and nonprofit executives to encourage all Arkansans to participate in the 2020 U.S. Census. The request for leaders to #CommitToCount is available online at bit.ly/commit2countar. We must...
This has been the most reflective Black History Month I’ve ever experienced, which makes me think of a very personal story from my dad’s childhood and its relationship to racial (in)equity. It occurred on May 3, 1964; he was...
Will it finally be abandoned? On Friday, Feb. 14, a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously upheld the District Court’s decision to strike down Arkansas’s addition of work-reporting requirements to its...
The White House released its proposed FY 2021 budget on February 10, 2020. If passed, it would make huge cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and other federal safety net programs. The implications would be devastating to...