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A losing strategy: Arizona is not an ice cream shop
We know that Arizona’s budget is facing a $1 billion shortfall and the state has been court-ordered to pay $317 million to schools. We also know that while other states are rebounding from the recession, Arizona’s employment rate and economic recovery continue to lag behind others.
Biggs blasts Dems for badmouthing GOP education cuts
The state’s top Senate Republican on Friday accused Democrats of hampering the state’s recovery by complaining about the state’s public education system.
Arizona governor wants to meet Obama in Phoenix next week
President Barack Obama and Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer's last meeting on the tarmac of a Phoenix airport in 2012 made international headlines after she shook her right index finger at him.
U.S. mayors report forecasts slow recovery for Arizona metro areas
Arizona’s metro areas are at least four years away from returning to pre-recession employment levels, according to a report issued Wednesday.
Report: Economic recovery in Phoenix, Tucson trailing region
Slumping housing prices and the prevelance of service-industry jobs contributed to Phoenix and Tucson trailing the rest of the Intermountain West in economic recovery during the second quarter, according to a Brookings Institution report.
Once highly touted, enterprise zone expansion looks bleak
Amid quiet sniping from Republican lawmakers, one of Gov. Jan Brewer’s economic recovery planks appears near death.
State budgets: $28 billion short this year
Thirty-six states face budget shortfalls totaling $28 billion in the fiscal year that began just five months ago, according to a new 50-state report. The assessment predicts another $56 billion in shortfalls across 35 states next fiscal year and $69 billion in shortfalls across 23 states the year after that.
