David Lujan Discusses The Arizona Center for Economic Progress and Children’s Action Alliance Priorities for 2022

Increases in Child Care Assistance. Supporting a ballot initiative to remove the expenditure cap on public education funding. Expand access to affordable higher education. Fully fund public schools. Giving comprehensive dental care to all adults through Medicaid. Expand KidsCare and eliminate the three-month waiting period to enroll. Increasing funding for KinCare. Expanding access to SNAP … Read more

Build Back Better will Lift People Up and Move the Country Forward

One thing is certain as the Democrats in the United States Senate starts to craft their own version of the Biden/Harris Build Back Better Plan. Whatever emerges will lift people up and move the country forward. The current version of the plan includes headline items like: an extension of the expanded Child Tax Credit (the … Read more

Habemus COVID 19 Relief Bill; More will be Needed Soon

There is a new COVID 19 Relief Bill. Finally! It is the product of bipartisan compromise between Republicans and Democrats after Republican leadership in the Senate and White House vacillated for six months on this needed measure for the American People. It will cost about $900 billion. It contains a lot of good funding priorities … Read more