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

January 16, 2025 by David Gordon

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

Governor Hobbs, with Assistance from the State Legislature and Biden/Harris Administration, Helps Give Medical Relief to Children and Those with Health Care Debt

March 14, 2024March 7, 2024 by David Gordon

Over the last several weeks, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs has taken several positive steps to help groups in need secure affordable health care and gain relief from medical debt. On February 20, in a gathering with parents, children, and child-health rights activists, the Governor announced that, after bipartisan negotiations with members of the State Legislature … Read more

Arizona Senator Brian Fernandez Introduces Legislation to Expand KidsCare

January 31, 2024January 31, 2024 by David Gordon

When only one poor child can not get health insurance, that is one child too many. That is the primary motivation for Arizona State Senator Brian Fernandez who introduced SB1487 on January 30, 2024. This measure, if it becomes law, would expand eligibility for impoverished families at 250 percent of the Federal Poverty Level to … Read more

Governor Hobbs Hit the High Notes in her Second State of the State Address

January 21, 2024January 8, 2024 by David Gordon

Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs touched on many subjects affecting Arizonans and the Grand Canyon State in her second State of the State Address. Please view the Governor’s address below. The topics the Governor addressed included border security, the state’s financial condition, Arizona’s Ascension in the high-tech industry, expanding post-secondary opportunities including apprenticeships, infrastructure such as … Read more

No Surprise Here: E.S.A. Expansion Costs More than Republicans Forecast and is Helping Rich Families

March 23, 2023 by David Gordon

Well, the proof is out. The financial disaster that the ill-advised and unaccountable Empowerment Scholarship Account (E.S.A.) expansion that public school educator advocates, sane policy experts, and informed media outlets predicted would drain state coffers and benefit (by a great margin) rich families has become a reality. In reporting from Mary Jo Pitzel at AZ Central, … Read more