Moving Families Forward Newsletter: October 2009
Health reform legislation and its impact on Arkansas’s low- and moderate-income children and their families remains at the top of AACF’s advocacy agenda. This issue of Moving Families Forward outlines […]
Rabid Refunds: Refund Anticipation Loans and High Tax Preparation Fees are Picking the Pockets of Arkansas’s Working Families
Arkansas working families are losing as much as $110 million every year because they don’t claim the federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), a significant loss in federal dollars to […]
Paycheck$ and Politics Newsletter: Issue 48
In public debates on taxes, it is often forgotten (or ignored) that the poor pay taxes just like everyone else. Not only do low-income working families pay a vast array […]
Moving Families Forward Newsletter: August 2009
Even during the August recess, Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families has been closely following Congress as it continues to develop legislation that will have a profound impact on Arkansas […]
Welfare Reform Redux: ARRA’s Potential to Help Arkansas Families in Financial Crisis
In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, ending welfare as we had then known it for several decades. The Act replaced the Aid […]
Moving Families Forward Newsletter: July 2009
Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families is closely following Congress as it continues to develop legislation that could have a profound impact on Arkansas children and families. Healthcare reform and […]
Background on TANF in Arkansas
Arkansas’s Transition to Employment Assistance (TEA) program is a safety net for children and families in poverty. TEA provides short-term cash assistance to families in financial crisis, with the long-term […]
Unemployment Insurance and ARRA: An Overdue Win for Arkansas Families
The economic stimulus program of the Obama administration, ARRA, is intended to save jobs and increase consumer spending during the worst economic downturn billion—will provide toward tax cuts and support […]
Advocate’s Guide to State Tax and Budget System
You’ve heard it a thousand times: “The only thing certain in life is death and taxes. We’ve all complained and joked about taxes for so long that we often forget […]
Moving Families Forward Newsletter: May 2009
Recently President Obama released his detailed budget that outlines funding for key programs that support low-income children and their families in Arkansas. On the same day that the President released […]