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
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."
March 28, 2014
The Washington Times, March 28, 2014: Arizona House OKs revised $9.23B state budget
"A deal on a state budget in hand after days of wrangling between Republican factions, the Arizona House on Thursday evening adopted a $9.24 billion state budget that made changes to a plan passed by the Senate."