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Jul 8, 2025

Big Beautiful Bill risks deepening inequality while promising growth

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” (H.R. 1, 119th Congress) is being promoted as a pro-growth, pro-worker initiative. But for many Arizonans, especially working families, the bill’s sweeping changes could deepen […]

clean energy jobs, solar, Clean Jobs America report
Jul 6, 2025

Church leaders urge Congress to retain solar tax credit

Scripture teaches us that we have a responsibility to care for all of God’s creation. As faith leaders in Arizona, we have a duty to lead our congregations, but also […]

Jul 4, 2025

Low income housing credit left out of bipartisan budget deal

Key Points: Tax credit provides incentives to create affordable housing Recent budget fails to fund tax credit Loss of program could exacerbate homelessness, stunt development Gov. Katie Hobbs and Arizona […]

Rows of solar panels sit at Orsted's Eleven Mile Solar Center lithium-ion battery storage energy facility, Feb. 29, 2024, in Coolidge, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Apr 23, 2025

Congressional action counter to the ‘America-First’ energy agenda

Working as a solar developer and contractor in our country’s sunniest state seems like a no-brainer, fool-proof small business model, and I’m grateful for the pro-business environment we foster in […]

family tax credit, Hobbs, Hoffman
Oct 31, 2023

Hobbs takes credit for family tax rebate despite not wanting it in budget

Gov. Katie Hobbs is claiming credit for a $260 million tax rebate to families that she didn't want in the budget. And she is doing so even though the law sending up to $750 back to Arizona taxpayers was crafted in a way designed to preclude her from doing so.

tax credit, pregnancy, mothers, Gress, Sandoval, Carter, House, legislation
Mar 1, 2023

Gress wants to expand tax credits to cover time woman is pregnant

Matt Gress, a first-term Republican representative from Phoenix, wants to expand state law providing for a tax credit for children to also include the number of months a woman was pregnant.

minimum wage, Flagstaff, Tucson, Rogers, Hobbs, tourism-related employers, tax credit, growth
Feb 6, 2023

Tax credit headline missed the forest through the trees

A recent article headline published in the Arizona Capitol Times unfairly mischaracterized SB1108 – Senator Wendy Rogers’ income tax credit bill for businesses located in municipalities like Flagstaff and Tucson with higher wage mandates than the state wage mandate. The headline purports those cities to whom the bill would apply stand to lose. We disagree. 

disabilities, jobs, One Step Beyond, job retention, Americans with Disabilities Act
Aug 29, 2022

Hiring people with disabilities is good for business, good for Arizona

People with disabilities have long been underrepresented or excluded from the workforce based on employers’ low expectations and prejudiced bias about abilities. As CEO of an Arizona-based organization that promotes opportunity and inclusion for individuals with intellectual disabilities, I can tell you that things are looking up, but there is still more to do.

Aug 11, 2022

Reject airline handout in inflation reduction bill  

Included in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is yet another airline handout that will increase the cost of everyday goods for all Arizona families as prices continue to soar due to all-time high inflation.  

Feb 4, 2021

Tax credit program answers need for affordable housing

Our housing market needs solutions right now. Low income housing tax credit program is ready to go, and we know it works. Let’s hope the Legislature and Gov. Ducey agree and vote to get it done.

Jun 30, 2020

Supreme Court cements Arizona school tax credit

A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing state funds to be used for parochial school scholarships in Montana cements in place a system that has existed here for years, all […]

vouchers, private schools, parochial schools, Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, Arizona Department of Education, Save Our Schools Arizona, ESAs, tuition, public schools, K-12 education, Ducey, Lewis
Dec 28, 2017

Senate President willing to consider cap on school tax credits

The architect of an ever-increasing siphoning off of state tax revenues to help send students to private and parochial schools said Thursday he's now willing to consider a cap -- now that the diversion has topped $74 million a year.

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