EARN in Arkansas

Arkansas Network publications

• Why Are We Still Talking About Additional Income Tax Cuts?

  • May 8, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Pete Gess
  Budgets and Taxes

• Arkansas’s New Ballot Measure Laws: A Game You Can’t Win

  • May 5, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Rebecca Zimmerman

• 2025 Legislative Session Preemption Efforts Had Mixed Results

  • April 30, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Val Habrock
  Democracy

• Drastically Shrinking the Federal Workforce Means Cutting Arkansas Jobs and Services

  • March 31, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Pete Gess
  Employment

• Arkansas Preemption Bills: Local Control Under Threat

  • March 27, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Val Habrock
  Preemption

• Time to Act: Addressing the Cost Crisis of Child Care

  • January 30, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Nicole Carey
  Children and Families

• The Arkansas $11 Minimum Wage is Not Enough

  • January 28, 2025
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Pete Gess
  Minimum Wage

• The State of Working Arkansas

  • May 21, 2024
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  EARN in the South Minimum Wage State of Working X Unemployment Insurance Unions and Worker Power Wages, Labor Standards, and Job Quality

• Administrative Win for the Childcare Workforce

  • January 29, 2024
  • Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
  • Olivia Gardner
  Care Economy Family Economic Security

• 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 […]