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Arkansas Advocates 2023 Legislative Session Recap, Vol. 1
Here you’ll find an overview of bills that Arkansas Advocates either supports or opposes.
Arkansas is making the wrong investments
sion by the Arkansas Legislature to approve a more than half-a-billion income tax cut that will disproportionately benefit the wealthy and profitable corporations.
Tax Cut Plan Even More Expensive, Skewed Toward the Wealthy
The likely proposal for the long-discussed special session seems to have settled, and its main feature would be to cut the top personal and corporate income tax rates. This disproportionately […]
Proposed Cuts to the Top Tax Rate Are Costly and Heavily Favor the Rich
As the Arkansas Legislature concludes the 2021 general session, our attention must turn to the special session they are preparing to begin to discuss personal income tax cuts. Although income […]
Cutting the Top Tax Rate is Bad Policy
State policymakers continue to discuss cuts to the top personal income tax rate that may take place during a special session sometime in October. Next week, we plan to release […]
Cuts to the Top Tax Rate Worsen Racial Inequality, Don’t Help Growth
Discriminatory public policies combined with prejudiced public and private actions in housing, the criminal justice system, and the labor market have created a historical and ongoing context in which Black, […]
Arkansas’s rankings are troubling in KIDS COUNT Data Book 2021
Data Across 50 States Show Struggles with Poverty, Health Indicators, But Hopes for Recovery Remain, Annie E. Casey Foundation Finds The number of Arkansas’s children going without health insurance surged […]
Arkansas Advocates 2021 Legislative Session Recap, Vol. 1
The Arkansas General Assembly convened on Monday, but this year’s session will look different from any we’ve ever seen. With the pandemic raging, the legislature has adopted new procedures to […]
What to watch and how to advocate during Arkansas’s 93rd General Assembly
Last year was a difficult one for Arkansas’s children and families. But thanks to the advocacy of people like you, several major pieces of legislation passed to help keep families in […]