Arkansas Advocates 2025 Legislative Session Preview
Prefiling of bills began on November 15, 2024, and some legislators did not waste any time!
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Medicaid 101
Medicaid is an essential health insurance program that provides coverage to hundreds of thousands of Arkansans.
The Disconnect Between Income and Taxes in Arkansas
The wealthy aren’t paying their fair share, and that hurts programs and policies that help all Arkansans. Our children have been back in school for weeks. Labor Day has passed. And we were teased with cooler weather last week....
Farther from the Finish Line
Arkansas Not on Track for Insurance Coverage for Arkansas’s Children Every year, our Finish Line report provides a snapshot of the previous year’s progress toward ensuring all children have insurance coverage in our state. Last year was an uncommon...
Issue Brief: Medicaid Matters on Labor Day
Arkansas’s Medicaid program helps keep our state’s labor force healthy. Having insurance protects part-time workers, caregivers, and lower-income families from financial hardship and provides peace of mind to many across the state. With insurance coverage, people can address health...
Sexual Health Education in Arkansas
A Blueprint for the Future DOWNLOAD THIS PUBLICATION If Arkansas is to reduce poverty and increase opportunity for its children and families, we must reduce the state’s teen birth rate. To do that, we have to change what we’re...
Arkansas Ranks 45TH in 2024 KIDS COUNT Data Book
Arkansas leaders must do more to protect children and prepare them to learn so they can flourish in adulthood.
The State of Working Arkansas
Arkansas only thrives when workers thrive In Arkansas, people, and not corporations, drive the economy. The labor and skills of Arkansas workers build prosperity in the state. Therefore, hardworking Arkansans deserve public spending and policies that support them. An...