The future of Arkansas is in the hands of the children and education officials, along with Sen. Gilbert Baker, visited Sallie Cone Elementary School Friday to present a new way to make the future a little brighter.
Archive: February 2008 | Section: Aspiring Scholars, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
The debate over increasing the severance tax on natural gas is building momentum in Arkansas.
Right now, gas companies pay Arkansas three-tenths of a cent for every 1,000 cubic feet taken from the Fayetteville shale play. The rate is one of the lowest in the country.
Archive: January 2008 | Section: Media, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
LITTLE ROCK— Southern Good Faith Fund’s Public Policy program today released a report that proposes creating an Arkansas Promise Trust Fund to help more Arkansans go to college, financed by an increase in the state’s historically low severance tax on natural gas.
Archive: January 2008 | Section: Press Releases, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
There are an estimated 28 million” unbanked” and 44.7 million “underbanked” people in the United States today, representing a potential market of 40 million households with little or no current relationship with a financial institution.
Archive: December 2007 | Section: Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
LITTLE ROCK (AP) - More than a third of the payday lenders operating in Arkansas are not being regulated, opponents of the lending practice said in a study released Wednesday.
The study by Arkansans Against Abusive Payday Lending, a coalition of groups seeking to end the practice of payday loans, said the state has improved its licensing of payday lenders but called for more oversight.
Archive: December 2007 | Section: Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
A move to add zoning restrictions on businesses that make “payday loans” has North Little Rock officials looking at a two-year, citywide moratorium on new check-cashing businesses.
Archive: August 2007 | Section: Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
After a mild start to summer, the high heat has arrived in August with a vengeance. And high temperatures in August mean high electricity bills in September.
Archive: August 2007 | Section: Media, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
North Little Rock may ban any new check cashing and pay day loan companies from coming into the city. It’s the latest in a series of bans that cover everything from pit bulls to novelty lighters. Is North Little Rock ban happy or just a progressive city taking action when needed?
Here is a list of some of things North Little Rock has banned recently:
-It was one of the
Archive: August 2007 | Section: Media, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund, Video
Southern Good Faith Fund’s Public Policy program is supporting several initiatives to increase asset building opportunities for working Arkansans. A key priority is increasing funding for the state’s Individual Development Account (IDA) program.
Archive: August 2007 | Section: Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
Voters narrowly approved a single, two-cent sales tax increase here just over a year after they rejected two separate proposals to raise the sales tax by 1 percentage point.
The increase - which will raise the total sales tax charged in the city to 10 percent - passed by a 125 vote margin Tuesday, with 1,555 votes for the tax and 1,430 casting their ballots against the tax.
Archive: May 2007 | Section: Phillips County, Public Policy, Southern Bancorp, Southern Good Faith Fund
