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 would lose $200,000 next year alone, and $3.7 million over the next 10 years.
Including the USPS, more than 20,000 Arkansans hold federal government jobs.
Cuts to Medicaid would mean cutting critical support and services for children in foster care in Arkansas and their families.
Shifting responsibility to the states for the cost of food benefits will make SNAP access and benefits more uneven — if available at all.
Medicaid coverage is connected to better health and lower rates of disability over time.
Over the next 10 years, Arkansans would lose nearly $10 billion in health care coverage.