Publications
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Policy Points Volume: 3 Issue: 1
Published: Thursday, January 13, 2011Despite all of the spending reductions, fund transfers, and other techniques used to balance the budget in the preceding few years, Arizona’s general fund faces a massive deficit. This issue of Policy Points poses an important question: Are you content with the historically low expenditures being made from the general fund and satisfied that the current low level of public services will be permanent?
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Indicator Insight Volume: 3 Issue: 1
Published: Thursday, January 13, 2011Public finance—taxes and other revenues collected by government and the expenditure of those revenues—always has been somewhat controversial because of wide philosophical differences among residents regarding the role that government should play in providing public services and in collecting taxes and fees from its residents. Recently, public finance in Arizona has become a prominent public issue due to the need to resolve the deficits that afflict state government and most county and municipal governments in Arizona.
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Policy Points Volume: 2 Issue: 6
Published: Tuesday, December 14, 2010The U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent report shows Arizona has the second highest poverty rate in the nation. This shameful distinction calls attention to a long-standing social problem that has been exacerbated by challenging economic times. In this edition of Policy Points, authors Richard C. Knopf and Brian Simpson examine the increasing demand for emergency food assistance, hunger's impact on children, and the growing number of Arizonans experiencing need for the first time.
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Policy Points Volume: 2 Issue: 5
Published: Tuesday, November 9, 2010Over the past 30 years, Arizona’s criminal sentencing policy has helped drive up its prison population to unprecedented levels. Today, the cost of incarcerating Arizona’s 40,000+ prisoners is approaching $1 billion annually prompting some to call for revision of Arizona’s sentencing code. This issue of Policy Points presents an overview of the arguments for and against sentencing reform.
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Special Report Volume: 1 Issue: 2
Published: Monday, September 13, 2010Arizona’s electorate – regardless of political party registration – is dissatisfied with state
government and its leadership, according to results of a September 2010 Morrison Institute-Knowledge
Networks Poll.
