Civil & Human Rights

Increasing Access to Child Care, KidsCare, and Quality Foster Care Are the Legislative Goals for the Arizona Children’s Action Alliance in 2025

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Hoping to build on the legislative successes of 2024 that included increases in funding for affordable child care, expanded KidsCare through AHCCCS, and continuing vital reforms in child foster care, Arizona Children’s Action Alliance (CAA) is looking to the members of the State Legislature to enact several of their recommendations in 2025.  They include: CAA … Read more

Arizona CD3’s New Representative, Yassamin Ansari, Describes Her First Week in Congress

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Arizona Congressional District Three House Representative Yassamin Ansari has come to Washington D.C., and it has been a nonstop rollercoaster Between fully assembling her legislative staff, getting the computers up and running in her congressional office, getting acclimated to the Washington scene, making her first-floor speech on the House floor condemning the inclusion of anti-immigrant … Read more

With the Nominations of Hegseth, Gabbard, Patel, and Noem, Trump Threatens America’s Security

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Next week, the Senate will start confirmation hearings for President-Elect Donald Trump’s cabinet nominees. The American People need to pay attention to all of them, especially the ones for Secretary of Defense (Pete Hegseth,) National Intelligence Director (Tulsi Gabbard,) F.B.I. Director (Kash Patel,) and Secretary for Homeland Security (Kristi Noem.) To be frank, none of … Read more