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Save the Date: AACF to Hold Advocacy Academy on Auguest 29

Anonymous on August 6, 2012 - 10:50am

Are you ready to champion children's issues in Arkansas? Learn how!
Join us for an "Advocacy Academy" on August 29 in Fayetteville. You'll learn how to engage elected officials, the media and like-minded allies to further your own cause, as well as how to join Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in our fight to protect and improve children's opportunities in the coming year.
Advocacy Academy August 29, 9:30-12:30*Fayetteville Public Library's Walker Community Room

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Save the Date: AACF to Hold Advocacy Academy on August 29

Anonymous on August 6, 2012 - 10:50am

Are you ready to champion children's issues in Arkansas? Learn how!
Join us for an "Advocacy Academy" on August 29 in Fayetteville. You'll learn how to engage elected officials, the media and like-minded allies to further your own cause, as well as how to join Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families in our fight to protect and improve children's opportunities in the coming year.
Advocacy Academy August 29, 9:30-12:30*Fayetteville Public Library's Walker Community Room

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Top 10 reasons to extend Medicaid to those who qualify

Anonymous on August 1, 2012 - 2:34pm

AACF Executive Director Rich Huddleston gives you the top ten reasons Arkansas should extend Medicaid services to those who now qualify under the new health care law. 
PDF here. 

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Arkansas 42nd in National Child Well-Being Rankings

Anonymous on July 25, 2012 - 2:09pm

The Annie E. Casey Foundation's (AECF) 2012 KIDS COUNT Data Book shows Arkansas has improved in the nationwide child well-being ranking system to 42nd, up from 47th just one year ago. This year's revamped Data Book ranks states in four key domains: Economic Well-Being; Education; Family and Community; and Health, in addition to an overall ranking. Sixteen different indicators were used to determine each state's rank in the four domains, a change from previous annual rankings based on ten indicators.

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Arkansas Medicaid Expansion: It Makes Cents

Anonymous on July 20, 2012 - 10:45am

It's been three weeks since the United States Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act, and it seems at least one new question has popped up each of these 21 days. The biggest question for states to address comes from the law's requirement that states' expand their Medicaid programs in order to cover all adults living at or near the federal poverty line. Governors from coast-to-coast in both major political parties have openly questioned how much such an expansion will cost their states.

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