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“The record of history is absolutely crystal clear that there is no alternative way so far discovered of improving the lot of the ordinary people that can hold a candle to the productive activities that are unleashed by the free-enterprise system.”

-Milton Friedman

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Memo: State Legislature Protects Arizona From Becoming California

FROM: Citizens for Free Enterprise ActionTO: Interested PartiesRE: Arizona 2025 Legislative Session Analysis The Arizona Legislature adjourned its 2025 regular session on June 27. At 165 days the session was five days longer than last year’s session, but still significantly shorter than the record long session in 2023. Overall, legislators considered more than

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Arizona Legislature Must Act to Prevent Zoning Abuses

“Don’t California my Arizona” has become a popular rallying cry for Arizonans fearful that new residents fleeing the neighboring state might bring its destructive big government policies with them. One important change the Arizona Legislature could make to prevent Arizona from turning into California is to prevent abuse of the

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Katie Hobbs’ Arizona Promise: More Government Jobs

During her 2025 State of the State Address, among her many exaggerations, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs made the dubious claim that “since [she] became governor, we’ve created[1] nearly 200,000 jobs.” This claim was suspect at the time, and the recent release of Arizona’s latest monthly employment data confirms just how

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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

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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

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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

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