Impact In Arkansas
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Reduce Poverty
The first of the Moving the Needle (MTN) strategic plan goals is to
Reduce the number of Arkansas families living below 200 percent of the federal poverty line.
Strategy 1: Fund policy and advocacy, statewide and local workforce and asset development initiatives, and direct services that show measurable good practices and constructively criticize practices that need to be improved. MORE
Acorn Institute works with more than 1,000 low-income Arkansans every year and in 2008 netted nearly $2 million in federal tax refunds and Earned Income Tax Credit refunds through their Everybody Benefits! project. Volunteer tax preparers make sure that low-income residents get their fair share.
Southern Good Faith Fund is developing a long-term strategy to increase VITA sites, and has already developed three pilot sites in Blytheville, Mena, and Mountain Home to figure out how to increase the uptake of EITC, and increase state-level attention to tax policies supportive of low-income families.
Strategy 2: Work with policymakers, the business community, funders, nonprofits, and other stakeholders to set targets for reducing poverty in Arkansas. MORE
WRF works to build partnerships in support of our MTN goals. We use the power of the invitation to regularly convene a wide variety of stakeholders across the state to continually refine our policy approaches to MTN. WRF has been invited to serve on the Task Force on Reducing Poverty and Promoting Economic Opportunity, a legislative task force focused on setting poverty reduction goals for the state.
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