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Arizona unemployment rises to 4.5 percent in December

Arizonaai??i??s unemployment rate is rising. The Department of Administrationai??i??s economic research staff reported that the stateai??i??s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose to 4.5 percent in December from 4.3 percent in...

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State jobless rate drops to 10-year low, drives wage increases

Arizona’s seasonally adjusted jobless rate dropped to 4.7 percent last month, the lowest rate in nearly a decade. The decline of three tenths of a point came as private sector...

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Arizona lost private sector jobs in May

Arizona lost 800 private sector jobs last month as the state continues to find its financial footing to finally recover from the recession. New figures from the state Department of...

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Obama heads to Phoenix to pitch mortgage reform

President Barack Obama waves to the media as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington after returning on Marine One from...

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Arizona unemployment rate remains flat in March

Arizona’s unemployment rate for March remained flat at 7.9 percent, above the national rate of 7.6 percent but below the state’s rate of 8.4 percent a year earlier. The Department...

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Facts don’t add up in study of government worker pay

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A few months ago, the city of Phoenix rolled out a $450,000 taxpayer-funded report showing that local governmental workers...

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Report: Arizona jobless rate drops to 8.2 percent

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Arizona unemployment rate remains at 8.7 percent

Arizona’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is holding at 8.7 percent despite the loss of 3,000 jobs in December. The Department of Administration’s monthly unemployment report says Arizona’s December job loss...

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State budget revenue up $80M in August

Major economic indicators in Arizona point to a steady recovery, although some bumps remain. Revenues in August grew by 8.6 percent, buoyed by strong showings in sales and individual income...

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Federal regulators are out of control

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has announced a new mandate on private sector employers requiring them to prominently display posters that outline employees’ rights to join a union. Let...

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Let the ax fall

Some employee terminations help the economy. There is a myth going around that even if government employees are inefficient or unneeded, we should not terminate them in this economic crisis...

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Arizona unemployment rises to 9.3 percent in June

Weakness in government employment and several private sectors of the economy is pushing Arizona’s unemployment rate upward. The Department of Administration reports that June’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 9.3...

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