A Moving Finish Line: Action Needed as Children’s Uninsured Rates Rise Again
Introduction Importance of Health Insurance Every Arkansan wants children in the state to grow up healthy, safe, and well-equipped with the resources they need to thrive. For more than two […]
Coverage, Care and Consequences: Arkansas Medicaid Perspectives
Medicaid is the single largest provider of health insurance for individuals and families across the nation. Across all Medicaid programs in our state, more than 850,000 Arkansans receive services covered […]
Eyes on the Finish Line
We Cannot Stop Until Every Child Has Health Insurance All Arkansans want our children to grow up healthy, safe, and supported. For more than two decades, Arkansas has worked to […]
Arkansas’s Maternal Health Crisis: Women Across the State Share their Experiences and Views
In 2024, Arkansas Advocates held a series of focus groups with women around the state who were pregnant or had recently given birth. The corresponding white paper, Arkansas’s Maternal Health […]
Medicaid Coverage is Veterans’ Coverage
As we honor veterans this week, it’s important to remember that they often have complex health needs when they return home from their service. In Arkansas, our Medicaid program provides […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
Holding the Line for Kids
Protecting Children’s Health Coverage in the Face of Major Challenges Arkansas has historically been a leader in children’s health coverage, with almost 95% of our state’s children covered by health […]
The Challenge of Arkansas Teen Births: Facing Reality to Lower the Nation’s Highest Rate
Arkansas’s teen birth rate is the highest in the nation, but teenagers here aren’t any more sexually active here than they are in other states. The difference is access to […]