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2025 Common Sense Institute Free Enterprise Report

The Free Enterprise Report is a marquis report that provides an objective, non-partisan, fact-based analysis of the Arizona economic landscape and the state’s most pressing issues. The study is a year long undertaking and includes the CSI Economic Performance Index as well as a Free Enterprise Competitiveness Index across eight different policy areas.

Both indices provide an opportunity to look backwards and better understand where Arizona has been and what direction we are moving. We can better understand how we are performing relative to other states and we can equip policy makers, civic and business leaders with the best understanding of how our state is performing, where we are winning, where we are losing and how free enterprise principles can get us back on track.

 

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Housing & Our Community
BRIEF: A Review of Arizona Building Permit Data

Arizona has 106 building-regulating and permit-issuing jurisdictions. Most (69) are very small (each covering less than 0.5% of state population). All maintain their own building codes, permitting offices,

February 12, 2026 Glenn Farley
Healthcare
Up in Smoke: The Public Costs of Cigarette Smoking by Medicaid Beneficiaries in Arizona

Rising health care – and in particular Medicaid - expenditures have been central to this fiscal challenge for both states and their federal partners, reflecting long-term growth in health care costs and an

February 11, 2026 Glenn FarleyZachary Milne
Housing & Our Community
Trends in Child Welfare The state of Arizona’s child welfare services child welfare needs

Decades of research support the conclusion that children perform best when placed with their families or close relatives.