Arizona Center for Economic Progress calls for a tax code and state budget that reflect the people who build Arizona from the bottom up PHOENIX — As Arizona and the nation prepare to mark 250 years of America, the…
PHOENIX — The U.S. Department of Agriculture today released states’ fiscal year 2025 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program payment error rates. Arizona’s new payment error rate is 10.80%. The new rate could…
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…
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