UPDATED: Funding Arkansas Highways
In a special session beginning later this week, Gov. Hutchinson and Arkansas lawmakers will make decisions on how to fund Arkansas’s highways, many of which are in dire need of […]
2016 Voter’s Guide
This November, elections are critical to the well-being of Arkansas’s children and families and to the future of this great state. Arkansas voters will help decide which candidates win a […]
Women Mean Business
Nearly half of Arkansas single moms live in poverty. The best way to make sure that moms and their kids have bright financial futures is to start making smart policy […]
Keeping the Momentum: How We Made Historic Health Care Gains for Kids & Why We Can’t Stop Now
For the first time in our country’s history, 95 percent of children have the health care coverage they need to be healthy and thrive, according to a new report by […]
Awaken the Force of Quality Pre-K
This May the Fourth, awaken the force … of QUALITY PRE-K. Our little Wookiees’ earliest experiences form the foundation for all of their future learning. In quality pre-K classrooms, they […]
The “Elements” of Quality Pre-K
Quality pre-K matters. It matters most to the children who start off with their backpacks full of knowledge — they are familiar with school routines, they understand the importance of using words rather […]
A Shared Sentence: The Devastating Toll of Parental Incarceration on Kids, Families and Communities
More than 5 million children in the United States (7 percent of the total child population) have had a parent incarcerated at some point in their lives, including an estimated […]
Reinforcing the Bridge Out of Poverty: An Arkansas EITC
Tax day would certainly be a little happier for hundreds of thousands of working Arkansans if we had an Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). President Reagan called EITCs “the best anti-poverty, the […]
A Tax and Budget Blueprint for a Better Arkansas
What if Arkansas were a national leader in children’s education and health? What if we had one of the lowest rates of child poverty in the nation instead of one […]
Arkansas Works on Changes to Health Coverage
Next week, during a special session on Medicaid, Arkansas lawmakers will vote on Governor Asa Hutchinson’s version of expanded health care, Arkansas Works. Much like the Private Option has, Arkansas […]