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By opening up the education marketplace and relying less on government provision of education, Arizona is leading the way in creating more and better education opportunities for young people through entrepreneurship and innovation.

Veterans, military service members, and their families suffer serious harm when predatory lenders target them with unscrupulously high interest rates. Currently, Arizona law allows predatory lenders to charge rates of over 200% APR. We believe this needs to change.

A new study released by the American Investment Council has recognized Arizona’s Public Safety Personnel Retirement System as one of the top 10 public pension funds in the country by private equity returns.

It was a headline I never thought I would see in our own country: Majority of Americans Want to Scrap First Amendment.

I applaud former Arizona Senator Catherine Miranda’s recent op-ed supporting the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (Arizona has much to gain with passage of USMCA).

From expanding Medicaid in the states to increasing health care literacy, reprioritizing education and enrollment to expanding federal subsidies to help more Arizonans get covered – we need to work on expanding what’s working with the ACA and addressing what isn’t. This could be one of the keys to tackling the high cost of health care in our country while expanding access and coverage for more of those who need it. Democrats and Republicans alike should take note.

As I often like to recount, in late 1999 my business partner, Jack Cuddihy, and I had the two qualities – naiveté and stupidity – absolutely necessary to go into a business we thought we knew a lot about.

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments regarding the legality of the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, on November 12. Court injunctions have left protections temporarily in place, but should the Supreme Court make a decision terminating the program, which they could as early as January 2020, these protections will be stripped and Dreamers, such as myself, could be subject to deportation. We need our Arizona senators to act now.

Securing the long-term sustainability of our state’s outstanding public higher education institutions for future generations of Arizonans is central to the board’s work. This report comes at an ideal time, as the board continues its efforts to evolve sound governance in the real estate sector for 21st Century universities evolving their own designs for continued success and advance in an increasingly competitive market for higher education.

The horror stories about female heads of household being trapped in a maze of economic insecurity persist as the most haunting legacy of the gender pay gap.