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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: 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
Infrastructure
Arizona’s Urban Desert Miracle

The conversation has become a drought management, when it should be about infrastructure. Water always has been scarcer in the western portion of the United States than it is along the eastern seaboard, but

March 24, 2025 Glenn FarleyZachary Milne
Education
Why Are Public Schools Closing?

Tracking Arizona's Public-School Closures