New Census Data Point to Importance of Government Relief
Overall, federal investments shielded many Arkansas families from more severe hardship and helped shorten the country's economic crisis.
Kids At The Capitol: 2021 Legislative Summary
More than a thousand bills were passed during the 2021 General Assembly. Do you know how they will impact kids? From positive changes for immigrant families in Arkansas to increasing teachers’ salaries, and to defending the state’s Medicaid expansion program,...
Arkansas’s Persistently High Child Poverty Shows Need for Permanent CTC Expansion and State Solutions
Editor’s note: The 2021 KIDS COUNT® Data Book is a 50-state report of recent household data developed by the Annie E. Casey Foundation analyzing how families have fared between the Great Recession and the COVID-19 crisis. Arkansas Advocates for...
AACF Statement on the Reopening of Arkansas Public Schools
The mission of Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families (AACF) is to ensure that all children and families have the resources and opportunities they need to lead healthy and productive lives and realize their full potential. We recognize that...
Dismantling the barriers to the Finish Line: Every child in Arkansas needs health coverage
In our annual Finish Line report, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families looks at the status of health care coverage for Arkansas’s children and families. The report examines changes over the years and recommends actions to get Arkansas to The...
Coronavirus and the Prospect of an Economic Recession
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...
Democrats Should Stop Trying to Cut Taxes for the Wealthy and Invest in Kids Instead
The Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means committee, Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA) has filed legislation that would repeal the cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes that was put in place by the Tax...
New Census Data Show Worrying Increase in Child Poverty, Uninsured Rates in Arkansas
Arkansans wages and poverty levels remained flat in 2018, despite the continued economic growth and historically low unemployment rates of recent years, according to new Census data. Conditions were even worse for children, who experienced a decline in their economic...
Arkansas Shows Improvement in Number of Children Living in Concentrated Poverty
Fewer of Arkansas’s children are living in communities of concentrated poverty, according to “Children Living in High Poverty, Low-Opportunity Neighborhoods,” a new KIDS COUNT® data snapshot released today by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Using the latest data available from the...
Survey Says: More People Without Insurance; Employment and Incomes Rising, If Unevenly
Today the U.S. Census Bureau published its annual release of national-level statistics on income, poverty and health insurance coverage. As we wrote in our previous blog post, these statistics are based on the Current Population Survey, which is useful...
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