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Arizona’s Free Enterprise Report – 2023 Edition

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.

Free Enterprise Report
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