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Xi Chen, Cronkite News Service

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Recent Articles from Xi Chen, Cronkite News Service

education November 11, 2013

Report: Arizona saw nation’s largest in-state tuition hikes

Arizona’s four-year public universities had the nation’s largest in-state tuition and fees increase over the past five years, according the nonprofit organization that oversees the SAT.

Home news September 16, 2013

Think tank: Arizona’s education funding cuts third-deepest in nation

Only Oklahoma and Alabama made deeper percentage cuts to K-12 education funding than Arizona during the economic downturn, according to a Washington-based think tank.

Home news August 19, 2013

Familiarity breeds receipts: Arizonans more often give to pols than PACs

When Arizonans open their wallets to make a political donation, it’s more likely to go to someone they know than to a party or PAC, an analysis of federal campaign data shows.

Insurers charge more to drivers with less education, blue-collar jobs
Home news July 23, 2013

Report: Insurers charge more to drivers with less education, blue-collar jobs

A Phoenix driver with only a high school diploma could be charged as much as 12 percent more in auto insurance premiums than a plant supervisor with a college degree, according to a report released Monday.

As with employment numbers, the growth of the gross domestic product in Arizona soared above the national average, plummetted below it during the recession, and then rose back to approach the national level. (Chart courtesy the American Legislative Exchange Council)
Home news July 19, 2013

Arizona’s low taxes, spending get high marks on national economic ranking

Arizona ranked seventh in the nation for its economic performance over a 10-year period and sixth for its economic outlook, according to 2013 ranking discussed Thursday at a Heritage Foundation forum.

education June 25, 2013

Arizona falls to 47th place among states in national ranking of child well-being

WASHINGTON – Arizona slipped from 46th to 47th place among states in 2011 for the well-being of its children on a variety of measures, including poverty, education, health, and family and community factors, according to a new report.

agencies June 18, 2013

US House passes bill to fix decades-old property-line snafu in Coconino County

WASHINGTON – The House voted overwhelmingly Monday to approve a bill to fix a federal surveying error that had put homes of some residents of the Mountainaire subdivision partly in the Coconino National Forest.

Home news June 11, 2013

Inter-nyet: Report says three Arizonans in 10 have no Internet access

WASHINGTON – Platforms for jobs, government and other services are increasingly moving online, but 30 percent of Americans do not have an Internet connection to access to those resources, a new Census Bureau report says. The number in Arizona mirrored the nation, with just over 31 percent of state residents having no Net connectivity in 2011, the year profiled in the report.

Home news June 10, 2013

Yuma unemployment rate was highest in the nation in April, report says

Yuma’s unemployment hit 30.3 percent in April, rising to become the highest in the nation at a time when unemployment rates in more than 90 percent of U.S. metro areas were falling.

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