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2025 Common Sense Institue 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
Arizona Jobs and Labor Force Update: April 2025

Arizona gained 10,200 nonfarm jobs in March (+0.31%, -0.3% year-over-year) – putting Arizona 12th among all states in monthly job growth

April 18, 2025 Kamryn Brunner
State Budget
2025 Arizona Budget Then and Now

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

April 07, 2025 Glenn FarleyZachary Milne
Jobs & Our Economy
Arizona Jobs and Labor Force Update: February Update

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

March 28, 2025 Kamryn Brunner