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With new work requirement, thousands lose Medicaid coverage in Arkansas
A major initiative of the Trump administration has been adding work requirements to benefit programs for the poor, now including Medicaid. This year, Arkansas became the first state to roll out the requirement. As a result, more than 12,000 people…
Incumbent governors of Arkansas and Rhode Island win re-election
Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Rhode Island Democrat Gov. Gina Raimondo have won re-election.
Arkansas Democrat was left off one county’s ballot as early voting began
A Democrat running for secretary of state in Arkansas was left off a county's ballot on Monday, prompting officials to temporarily shutter polling sites as they scrambled to fix the problem.
PAC won’t pull ad suggesting ‘lynching’ if Democrats win
A political action committee said Friday that it won't pull a widely condemned radio ad that suggests white Democrats will lynch African-Americans if they win in midterm elections in Arkansas next month.
Clarke Tucker's surprisingly competitive bid to unseat a Republican congressman is boosting his party's hopes that it can still find issues that attract voters in conservative places.
The death toll rose to at least five on Sunday after severe thunderstorms swept through the central U.S., spawning a tornado that flattened homes, gale force winds and widespread flooding from the Upper Midwest to Appalachia.
Abortion clinics in Arkansas made gains in one federal case and hit a severe setback in another.
Spending on social welfare programs like SNAP, also known as food stamps, would be dramatically cut under the White House budget unveiled in May. In Arkansas, a state that mirrors the national picture, 14 percent of the population was on…
For five decades, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly called food stamps, has provided access to food for millions of Americans and is the nation’s largest program that targets hunger. But policies at the state and federal level could tear…
