Apr 2, 2024 | Featured Research, Recent Research, Research, State Budget
A thriving economy depends in part on an efficient government that operates at sustainable levels. One measure of efficiency: given the powers and duties reserved to and assumed by a government, how much does it take from the broader economy to accomplish them?
Mar 22, 2024 | 2024 Research, Featured Research, Job Reports, Research
Job growth was slow in February, with the Grand Canyon state posting a gain of just 2,200 jobs (+0.07%), but on a lagging year-over-year basis, growth remains stronger at 2.1%.
Mar 19, 2024 | 2024 Research, Featured Home, Featured Research, Housing & Our Community, Research
At 102.15 (-3.5% since October 2023), the homebuyers ‘Misery Index’ remains at all-high time highs – despite falling about 10% last year, the Index is being held aloft by persistently high prices. For context, the long-run average of the Index is set to zero, and it peaked at 54.05 prior to the Great Recession.
Mar 12, 2024 | 2024 Research, Featured Home, Featured Research, Inflation Reports, Research
Inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for the Phoenix metro area continued its decline in February, falling from a rate of 2.7% year-over-year in December to 2.2% in February – the lowest inflation rate since February of 2021.
Feb 27, 2024 | 2024 Research, Featured Research, Housing & Our Community, Research
PDF| SYNOPSIS Jim Kolbe Free Enterprise Fellowship Brandon Bloch is CSI Arizona’s Jim Kolbe Free Enterprise Junior Fellow. He graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. in Political Science from Arizona State University. He has interned in a U.S. Congressional District...
Feb 22, 2024 | 2024 Research, Featured Research, Jobs & Our Economy, Recent Research, Research
Arizona has grown rapidly in the past 10 years – household incomes are more than 50% higher today than they were in 2011, and the percentage of people in poverty is down 7 percentage points to 12.5%.