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Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
Little Rock, Arkansas ·Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families was founded in 1977 by a group of prominent Arkansans who believed that children needed an “independent force to provide information and education to parents and citizens about our state’s policies toward children and families.”
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Arkansas Network publications
Arkansas Should Help Protect Workers’ Wages
- April 5, 2023
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Bruno Showers
Every Arkansan deserves to be paid by their employer for the work they’ve done. Sounds pretty obvious, right? It is. But in Arkansas, we make it too easy for employers […]
How Arkansas Educators Lost Their Collective Bargaining Rights
- April 3, 2023
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Olivia Gardner
Arkansas teachers lost more employment protections with the final passage of the Arkansas LEARNS Act. But before this bill was even filed, teachers here already had some of the weakest […]
The Critical State Of Black Women’s Health
- April 12, 2022
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- CaSandra Glover
The state of Black women’s health is in critical condition, due to the systemic racism, discrimination, and implicit bias that Black women face within the health care system. To combat […]
Unemployment Insurance Helped Create Demand — And Jobs
- June 21, 2021
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Bruno Showers
Our improving job numbers in Arkansas are due in part to the effect that $600-per-week unemployment supplements have had as they circulated through our economy. Losing them now would be […]
State of Working Arkansas 2017
- August 31, 2017
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Eleanor Wheeler
Arkansas is a hardworking state. In fact, we have over a million employees who work here. That number has been growing recently, as our unemployment figures hit record lows. That is a […]
A TAX AND BUDGET BLUEPRINT FOR A BETTER ARKANSAS
- April 1, 2016
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Eleanor Wheeler
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 […]
High Road WIOA: Building Higher Job Quality into Workforce Development
- December 17, 2015
- Keystone Research Center
- Stephen Herzenberg
In response to the federal Workforce Investment and Opportunity Act (WIOA), most states are now in the latter stages of developing federally required plans and policies for operating their systems […]
THE STATE OF WORKING ARKANSAS
- September 5, 2015
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Ellie Wheeler
Arkansas’ economy is gaining speed. However, low-income groups, minorities, and less-educated workers are being left behind. The new jobs and pay raises mostly benefit people who are already well-off. And […]
MISSING THE MARK: RACE EQUITY AND MISSED OPPORTUNITIES IN THE 2015 SESSION
- July 1, 2015
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Bailey Perkins
While there were a few bright spots, it was a tough year for racial equity and opportunity at the legislature. Lawmakers passed policies that will limit opportunities for many Arkansas […]