Arizona’s new $18.3 billion budget includes important improvements that will help families, but it still falls short of the long-term investments needed to address the affordability crisis and build a stronger…
Statement from Geraldine Miranda, Assistant Director of Fiscal Policy, Arizona Center for Economic Progress PHOENIX — “This budget includes important improvements that will help Arizona families, but it…
A new analysis from the Brookings Institute estimates that more than 145,000 U.S. citizen children have experienced the detention of a parent since the beginning of the Trump administration’s expanded…
New analysis from the Arizona Center for Economic Progress, using the Economic Policy Institute’s Family Budget Calculator, shows what Arizona’s affordability crisis looks like inside a Phoenix household budget:…
Across the country, immigration detention is no longer being treated as a temporary enforcement tool. It is increasingly being funded and built like permanent federal infrastructure. Congress…
Updated figures show thousands fewer Arizonans receiving food assistance as families face rising costs and growing economic strain PHOENIX — New data from the Arizona Department of Economic Security show…
Without state funding, more than 640,000 eligible children could lose access to summer grocery benefits Arizona lawmakers face an immediate budget choice that could determine whether hundreds of…
A small state investment could unlock more than $80 million in federal food assistance for Arizona children PHOENIX — Arizona lawmakers face an immediate budget choice that could determine whether hundreds…
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