In 2019, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, eleven percent of Arizona’s population needed to use the Supplemental Food Assistance Program (S.N.A.P. or Food Stamps.) In the United States, the number is 12 percent. Of that eleven percent in Arizona: 72 percent are families with children (Nationally, it is 67 percent.) 24 … Read more
The Arizona State Supreme Court, by a majority vote, has declined to grant relief to the petitioners behind the organization of citizen ballot initiatives like Invest in Ed, Save Our Schools Arizona, and Outlaw Dirty Money that would allow them to electronically collect petition signatures. No majority or minority opinion has been published yet. A … Read more
With the revelation that the state may have as much as a $1.1 billion budget deficit over the next two years (as well as a reduction in sales tax revenue,) the worry that vital programs that help our most vulnerable, including children, would be on the chopping block if legislators enacted, like in the foolhardy … Read more
Republicans and Democrats in Washington are currently negotiating a fourth stimulus measure that will appropriate about $470 billion. These funds would be apportioned in the following way: $310 billion to the small business paycheck protection program that ran out of money last week. $75 billion for hospitals. $60 billion for loans targeted for minority and … Read more
One of the many disastrous effects resulting from the closure of all Arizona schools and libraries from the Coronavirus was that children who were impoverished or lived in rural and more remote areas of the state could no longer secure access to high-speed Internet and computer usage. According to reporting by AZ Central, approximately 100,000 … Read more