Category: Health
By the Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF (formerly Kaiser Family Foundation) , Arkansas Black Vitality Staff July 18, 2025 –Each spring and summer, health insurers submit rate filings to state regulators to justify premium changes for the coming calendar year. ARHOME is Arkansas’s Medicaid expansion program created by the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA). It […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff June 30, 2025 – Nonprofit innovator and pioneer Dr. Sherece West-Scantlebury recently announced that she will step down from her post as president and CEO of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (WRF), concluding a distinguished 33-year career in philanthropy. Since 2007, Dr. West-Scantlebury has guided WRF through a period of […]
By the Arkansas Black Vitality Staff May 30, 2025 –Black unemployment in April jumped 0.7 percentage points between March and April, testing the well-worn Trump administration talking points that the Black economy improves under the MAGA agenda. The Arkansas Department of Commerce, in conjunction with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), announced on May 21 […]
By Arkansas Black Vitality Staff May 26, 2025 – President Trump reacted angrily to Walmart’s first-quarter earnings report, in which the Bentonville-based retailer said it intends to raise prices later this month on some grocery items due to ongoing tariffs and the administration’s trade war with China. During the company’s May 15 conference call with […]
