Experts who had estimated that the last year would see a heavy decline in birth rates due mainly to the difficulties created by the COVID-19 pandemic, were instead stumped by data showing an increase – the first in seven years for our state.
Title 42 will continue as a federal judge in Louisiana ordered that pandemic-related restrictions are the reasoning behind expelling migrants from entering the border.
With Arizona redistricting commissioners no longer beholden to federal preclearance requirements, GOP lawmakers have free reign to redraw district maps, disempowering Native and Latinx voters in the state and threatening a decade of uncontested Republican rule.
Among the 207 votes against the bill was Arizona’s entire Republican delegation, Representatives Andy Biggs (5th district), Paul A. Gosar (4th district), Debbie Lesko (8th district), and David Schweikert (6th district).
The unemployment rate has declined to 3.2 percent, the lowest on record since 1976, when the current record keeping methods began to be used.
In an effort to mitigate high rent and lack of available housing in the Phoenix area, the Board of Supervisors at Maricopa County approved in April the construction of more than 600 affordable housing units, which will receive $17 million in funding.
In August 2021, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior declared the first-ever Tier 1 shortage for the Colorado River operations being executed by the Bureau of Reclamation – the federal bureau in charge of declaring water shortages.
Athletes have been pumped for the reopening of the Arizona Special Olympics in Glendale following a two-year break due to the pandemic.
Thanks to President Biden’s bipartisan infrastructure bill, multiple states will be able to improve and upgrade vital infrastructure.