By: Ainsley Platt - June 10, 2025 Published in Arkansas Advocate Home | Arkansas Advocate
Candy and sodas are coming off the menu for SNAP recipients in Arkansas, and rotisserie chickens are taking their place.
June 16, 2025
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences’ Head Start program is hosting Destination Head Start: Enrollment and Hiring Event from 10 a.m.2 p.m. on Friday, June 27, at the Head Start Central Office at 8901 Kanis Road in Little Rock.
Staff will be available to answer questions about the Head Start program and provide tours of the center. Children’s activities and snacks will be provided.
June 9, 2025
By: Tess Vrbin - June 4, 2025, Arkansas Advocate
Arkansas lawmakers reviewed two rules Wednesday in response to a new law aimed at improving the state’s maternal health care landscape for low-income pregnant women.
The Joint Public Health, Welfare and Labor Committee spent nearly an hour discussing Arkansas’ new policy of presumptive Medicaid eligibility for pregnant women, part of the Healthy Moms, Healthy Babies Act that will go into effect in August.
June 9, 2025
Participants in the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) Institute for Community Health Innovation’s doula training program are now able to receive college credit, thanks to a continued partnership between UAMS and the University of Arkansas Hope-Texarkana (UAHT).
June 9, 2025
Rich Shumate, Columnist
May 28, 2025, Arkansas Advocate
All four Arkansas Republicans in the U.S. House reacted with undiluted pleasure last week after they and their colleagues pushed through a budget reconciliation bill, by a single vote, that makes significant changes in Medicaid and the SNAP food assistance program, including shifting costs from federal to state budgets.
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