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.
Children’s Health Coverage in Arkansas: Losing Ground at a Rapid Pace
Children in Arkansas are losing health insurance coverage at a staggering rate. In September, the United States Census Bureau published yearly data from its American Community Survey, as it has each year since 2008. This year’s data is a...
ARKids First turns 20!
Twenty years ago today, on March 10, 1997, then-Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee signed ARKids First into law. ARKids was Arkansas’s state-funded health insurance program, and bringing it to life was a monumental moment for kids and families in our...
More Kids Covered by Health Insurance but Challenges Linger
AACF releases study showing that more Arkansas kids are being covered by health insurance, yet many challenges remain. The number of uninsured children dropped in Arkansas even as families continued to feel the effects of the recent recession. Our...
Exciting news about ARKids and Medicaid
Here’s a sneak peak at an exciting trend we’ve just uncovered in recent insurance coverage data. Find out more about this when we release our annual report on child health insurance in early 2012. In a nutshell: the number...
Happy anniversary CHIPRA!
Today is my fourth wedding anniversary. And while it’s an important milestone in my own life (and hopefully my husband’s!), I’m also celebrating an anniversary that has provided peace of mind and financial security to thousands of Arkansas families...
ALERT: Don’t Delay Health Care Reform
ALERT: Don’t Delay Health Care Reform Arkansas children and families need your help! Our families still need health reform. The recent election in Massachusetts hasn’t changed the fact that more than eight million children nationwide lack health coverage. And...
Struggling families need expanded ARKids First now.
In 2009, the legislature and Gov. Mike Beebe promised health coverage to thousands of uninsured Arkansas children. They made that promise possible with an increase in the tobacco tax. Since then, more Arkansas families have lost their jobs, foreclosed...