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    Indicator Insight Volume: 2 Issue: 1
    Author(s):
    Tom Rex
    Published: Sunday, August 1, 2010

    The latest issue of Indicator Insight examines the size and growth of Arizona’s economy and the productivity and prosperity of its residents. Learn about Arizona’s gross product, occupational mix, per capita personal income, and more.

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    Special Report Volume: 1 Issue: 1
    Author(s):
    Tom Rex
    Published: Thursday, February 11, 2010

    Sampling error is very large for most Arizona counties in the American Community Survey. Read a nontechnical discussion of the accuracy of the ACS.

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    Decades Volume: 1 Issue: 10
    Author(s):
    Sally Wittlinger
    Published: Sunday, January 31, 2010

    During the mid-part of the last decade, when the population growth rate was at its highest, the Phoenix area experienced rapid development and urban sprawl. The result has been an intensification of the Urban Heat Island effect. In this edition of Decades, author Sally Wittlinger discusses this uncomfortable consequence of urbanization.

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    Decades Volume: 1 Issue: 9
    Author(s):
    Richard Knopf
    Published: Saturday, January 30, 2010

    Human services provide an important safety net for Arizonans and help many achieve self-sufficiency. But by the close of the last decade, the infrastructure was severely damaged by the recession – with shrinking resources at all levels of government, and across the entire spectrum of nonprofit organizations including faith communities.

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    Decades Volume: 1 Issue: 8
    Author(s):
    Kristin Borns
    Published: Friday, January 29, 2010

    The Highway User Revenue Fund (HURF), one of the primary sources of transportation funding, rapidly declined in available dollars at the end of the decade.