Nathan Treece
Reporter & Host, Little Rock Public Radio-
A study by researchers at Harvard University confirmed such requirements were associated with Medicaid coverage loss. But they found no evidence of a positive effect on employment. -
High poverty rates among children in all four states remain a common thread. Fears mount that cuts to the nation's social safety net of social services, like Medicaid and SNAP, will only worsen low child well-being in those states. -
According to data from the Homeland Security Investigations agency, all forms of cargo theft cost supply chains up to $35 billion each year. -
These federal funding cuts come at a particularly challenging time for the 13.5% of U.S. households identified as food insecure. -
Arkansas could lose nearly $763 million in federal funds if congressional budget cuts are approved. -
U of A Researchers found microplastics actually stores in the rocks and sand at the bottom of streams, then storms lift up and move the particles downstream. -
Arkansas fentanyl deaths have dropped by 40% since its peak in March 2022 according to the CDC. The drop is credited largely to the widespread availability of Naloxone, for overdose reversals. -
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated their policy goal as, “to have Medicaid serve as a safety net rather than a poverty trap.”
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The bill would allow dairy producers to sell unpasteurized goat, sheep and whole cow milk at farmers markets and by delivery in Arkansas. -
The nonprofit agency known as DecARcerate released a report on a first-person experience inside solitary confinement in Arkansas' state prison system.
