Stacey McCullough
Assistant Director-CPED
Phone: 501-671-2078
Email: smccullough@uada.edu
Ballot issue groups pivoted again this month in how they collected voter signatures for their proposed constitutional amendments after a federal appeals court blocked an earlier ruling that allowed them to collect signatures by mail.
The ballot titles for two constitutional amendments proposed by the Arkansas legislature were challenged in court this week by opponents who hope the measures are struck from the November 2020 ballot.
Every 10 years, the U.S. Census Bureau strives to get an accurate count of each person living in the United States. But, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, traditional means of census outreach are no longer available.
Did you know April 15 was not always the federal income tax filing deadline?
Arkansas and the nation has seen a historic increase in weekly Unemployment Insurance claims recently as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
While the April 2020 unemployment rate for Arkansas was 10.2%, which was less than the national average of 14.7%, the unemployment rate varied greatly among counties in the state and underestimated the number of people without work.
The option for Women-Owned Small Businesses (WOSB) to self-certify is effectively going away on Oct. 15, 2020. WOSBs will have two primary pathways to certification, which we describe in this blog post.