Arizona
State Government
Governor
Katie Hobbs (D)
State Senate
14
Democrats,
16
Republicans
State House
29
Democrats,
31
Republicans
Arizona
Economic well-being - Arizona
Extreme poverty rate
0.1
Food insecurity
0.1
Minimum wage
14.7
Percent of working families under 200% of the poverty line
0.3
Poverty rate
11.7%
Unemployment rate
4.1
Number of Black or African American children living in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment
Number of Hispanic or Latino children living in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment
Percent of individuals who are uninsured
10.3
July 25, 2018
Why Arizona Is Building Tiny Homes for School Teachers
June 8, 2018
Arizona Teachers Push Proposal to Tax Rich for Education
April 26, 2018
Arizona teacher walkout: how 3 decades of tax cuts suffocated public schools
November 9, 2017
Arizona allocated $85 million to wrong schools for special-education, low-income students
October 11, 2017
Teacher: What happened when I stopped viewing my students as data points
April 21, 2014
The Arizona Daily, April 21, 2014: TUSD leases space to preschool for children in poverty
"The Tucson Unified School District will lease unused space to an organization that will provide a preschool for children in poverty on the southwest side."