LITTLE ROCK (AP) - State finance officials say Arkansas' Medicaid program faces a nearly $200 million gap in state funding next year.
The Department of Human Services on Tuesday told members of the Joint Budget Committee it needed $359 million in additional funding from the state for its Medicaid program next year. Gov. Mike Beebe has proposed using $90 million in general revenue and $70 million from the state surplus to fill the gap for the budget year that begins July 1, 2013.
The latest budget figures came out a week after Republicans won control of the Arkansas Legislature for the first time since Reconstruction. GOP leaders have said they want to address the shortfall before taking up a proposal to expand Medicaid under the federal health care law.
A senior White House adviser insists President Barack Obama learned the Internal Revenue Service had been targeting tea party groups "when it came out in the news."More >>
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President Barack Obama is delivering the commencement address at Morehouse College, the historically black, all-male institution that counts Martin Luther King Jr. among its alumni.More >>
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First lady Michelle Obama has some advice for some Tennessee high school graduates: strike your own path in college and life and work to overcome inevitable failures with determination and grit.More >>
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