Arizona Voters Chose Free Enterprise
Just before Thanksgiving and with all the votes finally counted, Arizona officials met to certify the state’s results from an election in which Arizonans chose free enterprise. From state ballot measures to local ballot measures to state legislative races, free enterprise notched key victories up and down the ballot. Although several positive ballot measures came […]
Georgia Voters Support Small Businesses with Tax Relief
When Georgians went to the polls last month, among the many races on the ballot was a measure crucial to Georgia’s small businesses that will increase Georgia’s personal property tax exemption from $7,500 to $20,000. Georgians overwhelmingly voted yes, with more than 64 percent supporting the measure to relieve some of the burden on small […]
Katie Government Jobbs Returns from Summer Vacation
It’s been a few months since we published an in-depth look at Arizona’s employment report, and with new numbers out last week from the state Office of Economic Opportunity it is worth taking another look at the state’s labor market. This month’s headline numbers What not to like A slight uptick in the unemployment rate […]
Big Labor’s Labor Day Lie
Americans around the country recently marked another Labor Day; in addition to enduring the summer heat, we also had to endure another cycle of big labor activists—and a vice president—falsely giving big labor credit for various benefits enjoyed by American workers. Vice President Kamala Harris is not the first executive branch official to make this […]
Kamala Harris’ “Increase Home Prices By $25k Act”
The US is in the midst of a years-long housing affordability crisis largely due to a significant shortage of housing supply. Estimates of the shortage suggest it’s at least 4-7 million homes. What can be done to address this shortage? If you ask Vice President Kamala Harris, the answer is apparently to stimulate housing demand […]
Failed Socialist Policy in a New Wrapper: Kamala Harris’ Price Controls
The great free market economist Thomas Sowell once noted: Nothing is easier, or more emotionally satisfying, than blaming high prices on those who charge them, rather than on those who cause them.…People with no experience in business, no knowledge of history, and utterly ignorant of economics do not hesitate to leap from high prices to […]
Taxpayer-Subsidized Loans to Illegal Immigrants – What Could Go Wrong?
Loans for illegal immigrants have become a priority for activists recently. As part of that push, last year, Joe Biden’s Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and Department of Justice leaned on banks and other financial institutions to start making loans to illegal immigrants. The CFPB warned lenders that denying a loan due to “unnecessary” reliance […]
Alarming AZ Employment Trends Continue Under Katie Hobbs
Arizona’s Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) just released the state’s latest monthly employment report, with updated numbers for July. The new numbers are a mixed bag for Arizonans and the state’s economy, with the unemployment rate increasing and non-seasonally adjusted employment dropping by 9,400 jobs, coupled with a good boost in construction. Other sectors continue […]
In a Win for Taxpayers, Arizona Supreme Court Stops Union Giveaway
Last week, the Arizona Supreme Court unanimously ruled in favor of taxpayers when it shut down the City of Phoenix’s agreement with its employee union that allowed union employees to perform union business while being paid by the city. The Court ruled that the practice—known as “release time” because city employees were released from the […]
Memo: Free Enterprise Is On The Ballot In Arizona
FROM: Citizens for Free Enterprise ActionTO: Interested PartiesRE: Arizona 2024 Legislative Session Analysis The Arizona Legislature adjourned its 2024 regular session on June 15. At 160 days the session was well over a month shorter than last year’s record of 204 days. Overall, legislators considered more than 1,700 different bills and resolutions. More than 250 were signed into […]