Arkansas fiscal session begins this week; proposed budget expected to pass with few changes • Arkansas Advocate
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- April 9, 2024
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
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Arkansas lawmakers will convene the state’s eighth fiscal session Wednesday, beginning the process of finalizing the state budget for fiscal year 2025, which starts July 1 and ends June 30, 2025. The fiscal session lasts a maximum of 30 days unless three-fourths of the House and Senate vote to extend it. Sen. Jonathan Dismang, R-Searcy, […]
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U.S. HHS Secretary asks Arkansas to re-enroll Medicaid-eligible children who lost coverage
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Google-News-Wire
- December 19, 2023
- Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families
- Arkansas department of human services
- arkansas medicaid
- ARKids
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
- children
- COVID-19
- health care
- health coverage
- kristi putnam
- medicaid
- medicaid eligibility
- medicaid unwinding
- public health emergency
- Sarah Huckabee Sanders
- tanf
- u.s. department of health and human services
- Xavier Becerra
Arkansas’ removal of thousands of children from Medicaid coverage this year has raised concerns with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, according to a Monday letter from the department secretary to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. In Arkansas, 78,506 fewer children were enrolled in Medicaid or the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in September […]
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Federal funds helped Arkansas childcare providers stay afloat, but staffing struggles continue
Sherrie Gillespie wasn’t sure if the daycare center she runs in Monticello would survive the COVID-19 pandemic. “I may have stayed open, but I know I would have had to cut some services in order to maintain payroll and pay bills,” she said. Thanks to $445,000 in federal grant funds, Head of the Class Childcare […]
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Arkansas teen birth rate highest in the country
ARKANSAS, (KNWA/KFTA) — A new report by the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families revealed Arkansas has the highest rate of teen births in the United States. According to the report, Arkansas ties with the state of Mississippi. Laura Kellams, with Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, said there are two main solutions that the […]
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