Close to a million new jobs in Arizona over the next ten years. 115 billion dollars in added economic state activity over that same time span. Personal income growing by close to $100 billion with disposable earnings just under $85 billion. That is what the L. William Seidman Research Institute at the W.P. Carey School … Read more
Supporters of public education, sound economic policy, and Democracy have less than a month to gather signatures for six ballot initiatives that would allow voters in 2022 to decide whether to repeal Republican-sponsored legislation that is designed to circumvent Invest in Education-Proposition 208, institute discredited fringe trickle-down economic tax cut policy, and obstruct Democracy by … Read more
There is, as EJ Montini headlined in an oped yesterday (August 19, 2021,) an Arizona Republican war on children. This is in addition to their separate wars on science, reality, economic sanity, and Democracy. Over the last several months, their operatives in the Legislature, the Governor’s office, and the Arizona Supreme Court have: Opted to … Read more
With the Arizona Legislative Session over, citizen activists, stunned by the regressive taxation and voter suppressing measures passed over the last several months, are readying referendum petitions for Arizonans to sign that will appear on the 2022 ballot. Organizations like Stand for Children, Arizona Deserves Better, and Invest in Arizona (which includes groups involved in … Read more
Reaction among progressive circles to the seven to two United States Supreme Court decision upholding the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act has been universally jubilant in Arizona and across the country. President Joe Biden issued a statement that read: “The Affordable Care Act remains the law of the land. Today’s U.S. Supreme Court decision … Read more