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
Despite a pandemic and public health emergency, the Trump Administration, disregarding the advice of its Attorney General and Republican officeholders like Senator Lamar Alexander, is intent on pursuing the destruction of Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) at the United States Supreme Court. Recent reporting by Axios reveals that approximately 27 million Americans have lost their … Read more
Over the last couple of days, Governor Doug Ducey has exhibited sound and prudent judgment over the question of whether to reopen Arizona’s economy. Speaking at a press conference yesterday and during an interview on The Mike Broomhead Show on KTAR (92.3,) the Governor relayed that he and his team will rely on the medical … Read more
When the people gathered for the virtual monthly meeting for Legislative District (LD) 18 a couple of weeks ago, there were calls from our elected representatives (Mitzi Epstein, Jennifer Jermaine, and Sean Bowie) to help people who are waiting for their first unemployment checks and/or have been forced to rely on food banks. There were … Read more
The two trillion and two hundred billion dollar stimulus package that overwhelmingly passed Congress last week with near-unanimous bipartisan support is far from a perfect bill. It was a necessary compromise Democrats had to forge with corporatist Republicans to get vital assistance to the people, small business, the nation’s medical infrastructure, and soon to be … Read more