Arizona’s Free Enterprise Report – 2023 Edition

Arizona gained 11,400 nonfarm jobs in March (+0.35%, -0.3% year-over-year) – putting Arizona 6th among all states in monthly job growth

This year, the Legislature will enact and the Governor execute a budget that spends over $60 billion – including from the General Fund ($16 billion), and approximately 1,200 Other Appropriated Funds ($5 bil

Arizona gained 4,300 nonfarm jobs in February (+0.13%, -0.4% year-over-year) – putting Arizona 15th among all states in monthly job growth. For perspective, the total U.S. job growth rate in January was 0.0

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