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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
2025 Legislative Session Preemption Efforts Had Mixed Results
- April 30, 2025
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Val Habrock
Drastically Shrinking the Federal Workforce Means Cutting Arkansas Jobs and Services
- March 31, 2025
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Pete Gess
Arkansas Preemption Bills: Local Control Under Threat
- March 27, 2025
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Val Habrock
Time to Act: Addressing the Cost Crisis of Child Care
- January 30, 2025
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Nicole Carey
The Arkansas $11 Minimum Wage is Not Enough
- January 28, 2025
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Pete Gess
The State of Working Arkansas
- May 21, 2024
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
Administrative Win for the Childcare Workforce
- January 29, 2024
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Olivia Gardner
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 […]