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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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Jobs & Our Economy
A New Household Liquidity Measure – Is Debt Eating Arizona More Than Other States?

On January 8th, WalletHub released its most recent estimate of average credit scores across the states. In every state, the average credit score dropped compared to the prior year as households, some of the

Free Enterprise Report
2026 Free Enterprise Report

CSI's annual Free Enterprise Report analyzes the economic competitiveness of Arizona.

Jobs & Our Economy
Arizona Inflation February Update

Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the Phoenix metro area rose 1.8% year-over-year in February, a decline from 2.2% in December – the last time the CPI was released for the Phoenix

March 11, 2026 Zachary Milne