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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

Defund the Police? Balancing ‘Social Control’ & ‘Social Investment’ (video)

August 27, 2020July 1, 2020 by Pamela Powers Hannley

What does “defund the police” mean to you? Following the tragic and unnecessary deaths of George Floyd, Dion Johnson, Rayshard Brooks, Carlos Ingram Lopez and others at the hands of law enforcement officers, there have been calls to “defund the police.” Often the same people who say “defund the police” also add “that doesn’t mean … Read more

The CAA wants to Help Children that Live with Unlicensed Kinship Care Providers

August 27, 2020December 23, 2019 by David Gordon

Kinship Care is not the first item that comes to mind on the many issues that will be discussed among public servants at the Arizona State Legislature in 2020. It is, however, an important issue for the thousands of Arizona children placed by the Department of Child Safety (DCS) that live with relatives other than … Read more

FY2020 Budget & #AZLeg Session Wrap-Up: What Just Happened? (video)

July 30, 2019 by Pamela Powers Hannley

Drama, rumors, secrecy, backroom deals, coup attempts, flexible rules, and a bit of chaos are commonplace during the waning days of each session of the Arizona Legislature. This is the atmosphere in which our state’s budget is crafted each year. The First Session of the 54th Legislature ended in the wee hours of May 28, … Read more

Speaker Bowers: It’s Time to Hear the People’s Agenda (video)

February 17, 2019February 16, 2019 by Pamela Powers Hannley

The Arizona House is moving at a snail’s pace this session. In fact, Senator David Bradley has quipped that the Senate should take a one-month vacation so the House can catch up. According to the Chief Clerk, as of Friday, the end of the fifth week of session, 744 House bills were dropped. Forth-seven percent … Read more

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Thanks Mark for the invitation. Let me know the time and date of your get together and also how I…

We have a JCC Current Events group which has met for two decades. During the Pandemic we switched to Zoom.…