The continuing growth in states’ Medicaid programs has placed a severe financial strain on state budgets. In fiscal year 2024, Medicaid was the largest category of total state spending, consuming 29.8 ...

A federal agency has approved Arkansas' request to use Medicaid funds to pay for short-term stays for adults at psychiatric hospitals, something state officials say will expand poor Arkansans' access ...

CNN Correspondent Isobel Yeung covers the impact of USAID closures in Afghanistan. Will Sommer, senior reporter for The Bulwark, discusses the MAGA base’s reaction to the Trump administration’s ...

The U.S. departments of Health and Human Services, Agriculture and Housing and Urban Development have worked to usher in ...

ARKANSAS, USA — With schools out for summer, many Arkansas children face the risk of missing meals they rely on during the academic year. But the state’s Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) ...

ARKANSAS, USA — As the Senate eyes a vote on a sweeping federal budget bill later this week, a new analysis from Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families shows the proposed changes could have ...

Amaya Diana, an analyst at KFF, points to work requirements launched in Arkansas and Georgia as keeping people off Medicaid without increasing employment. Amber Bellazaire, a policy analyst at the ...

Arkansas is no longer anticipating its proposed "Pathway to Prosperity" initiative to be launched on Jan. 1, instead seeking to implement its Medicaid work requirement later in the year, a ...

More Arkansans with disabilities may now be eligible to open an ABLE account, Arkansas Treasurer of State John Thurston ...

Arkansas Treasurer of State John Thurston announced Friday that more Arkansans with disabilities may now open an ABLE account ...

The Arkansas Department of Human Services warned Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program enrollees on Wednesday of a potential "delay or disruption" in future benefits if the government shutdown ...