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Mass Deportation Would Be a Job Killer for Arizona — Including for U.S.-Born Workers

New modeling finds 1,700 ICE arrests could ultimately cost more than 20,000 Arizona workers their jobs, compounding existing workforce and affordability pressures PHOENIX —  Intensified immigration enforcement…

As America250 Approaches, Arizona’s Story Must Include All of Us 

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…

What to know about USDA’s new SNAP payment error rate for Arizona

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…

3 Things to Know About Arizona’s Budget

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…

Arizona Budget Includes Improvements But Falls Short of Meeting the Affordability Crisis

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…

Arizona Children Caught in Consequences of Immigration Detention  

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…

What an Affordability Crisis Looks Like in a Phoenix Household’s Budget Without SNAP 

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:…

A New $72 Billion ICE and Border Package Would Turn Federal Enforcement Spending into Local Costs for Arizona 

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…

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