• Building regional economic hubs
• Rebuilding water, sewer, broadband, and road infrastructure
• Expanding entrepreneurship, apprenticeships, and small business support
• Providing summer youth employment tied to career-readiness certificates
• Establishing an Affordable Housing Taskforce at ADFA

• Invest in reading specialists and reinforce literacy programs so every child reads on grade level
• Guarantee every district has adequate literacy support
• Expand mental health and teletherapy services, especially in rural areas
• Reject voucher schemes that siphon resources from classrooms
• Support teachers with fair pay, resources, and respect
• Expand adult literacy programs to open doors for working families

• Stop construction of a 3,000-bed prison in Franklin County
• Reform prisons to prioritize rehabilitation
• Provide trade programs for incarcerated individuals to reduce recidivism
• Ensure adequate staffing to protect corrections employees

• Protect Medicaid
• Expand mental health services statewide, especially in rural communities
• Grow telehealth services to deliver real-time care across the state
• Ensure healthcare dollars improve outcomes, not bureaucracy
• Launch a statewide Mental Health App and Hotline

Arkansas is a beautiful state with great people and incredible potential, cursed with an awful government controlled by corrupt grifters that work for billionaires and big business and fail us on every count. Because of this it ranks near the bottom of every quality-of-life metric imaginable: health, education, crime, you name it.

They want us poor, sick, dumb, and fighting each other, so that we're so busy trying to survive that we can't challenge what they're doing to us.

Connecticut is a state with a similar-sized population that shows us what we could have. It's better on every single metric. Why? Because Connecticut voters elect politicians who actually work for their citizens. Can you imagine what your life would be like if we had similar stats?

Use the dropdown below to compare Arkansas to other states and see how we measure up. Spoiler alert: we're almost always worse. It's time for a change.

Compared to: Alabama (5.2 M) Alaska (0.7 M) Arizona (7.6 M) California (39.4 M) Colorado (6.0 M) Connecticut (3.7 M) Delaware (1.1 M) Florida (23.4 M) Georgia (11.2 M) Hawaii (1.4 M) Idaho (2.0 M) Illinois (12.7 M) Indiana (6.9 M) Iowa (3.2 M) Kansas (3.0 M) Kentucky (4.6 M) Louisiana (4.6 M) Maine (1.4 M) Maryland (6.3 M) Massachusetts (7.1 M) Michigan (10.1 M) Minnesota (5.8 M) Mississippi (2.9 M) Missouri (6.2 M) Montana (1.1 M) Nebraska (2.0 M) Nevada (3.3 M) New Hampshire (1.4 M) New Jersey (9.5 M) New Mexico (2.1 M) New York (19.9 M) North Carolina (11.0 M) North Dakota (0.8 M) Ohio (11.9 M) Oklahoma (4.1 M) Oregon (4.3 M) Pennsylvania (13.1 M) Rhode Island (1.1 M) South Carolina (5.5 M) South Dakota (0.9 M) Tennessee (7.2 M) Texas (31.3 M) Utah (3.5 M) Vermont (0.6 M) Virginia (8.9 M) Washington (8.0 M) West Virginia (1.7 M) Wisconsin (6.0 M) Wyoming (0.6 M)

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