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Peoria expecting ‘cautious’ budget next fiscal …

12/5/2023
With revenue growth slowing significantly, Peoria residents should expect a very conservative budget for the next fiscal year.

Unemployment filings up, but hiring rates at lowest …

8/17/2023
PHOENIX — It looks like efforts by the Federal Reserve Board to cool the economy are working — at least here in Arizona.

$307M overpaid by state from Pandemic Unemployment …

7/21/2023
PHOENIX — Arizona overpaid recipients of a federally funded unemployment program $307 million more than they were entitled.

Arizona Supreme Court upholds ruling on halting …

5/3/2023
PHOENIX — About 100,000 Arizonans who got their extra federal unemployment benefits cut off early during COVID by then-Gov. Doug Ducey because he instead wanted to get them to go to work at restaurants and hotels are not going to get the funds they lost.

Arizona House gives preliminary approval to cut …

4/5/2023
PHOENIX — Insisting there are plenty of jobs out there, the state House gave preliminary approval Tuesday to a measure to cut the length of time that Arizonans who are laid off can collect jobless benefits.

State’s jobless rate rises, bucks national trend

10/20/2022
PHOENIX — The state’s jobless rate ticked up again last month, the third time in four months, even as the national rate dropped.

Court: Unemployment fund cutoff by Ducey not illegal

9/28/2022
PHOENIX — Gov. Doug Ducey broke no laws when he unilaterally cut off the extra $300 a week the unemployed in Arizona were getting last year, the state Court of Appeals has ruled.

Some repair shops struggle with staffing

6/20/2022
Anyone who has taken their car in for any kind of routine service lately might have noticed those West Valley repair or lube shops didn’t seem to have many people on hand. In some cases, …

PayPal confirms layoffs, closure of Chandler facility

6/14/2022
CHANDLER — Internet payment processor PayPal is closing its Chandler offices and laying off an undetermined amount of workers, though many of its employees will continue to work …

Job numbers better overall for Arizona

11/18/2021
PHOENIX — Arizona’s employment situation continues to improve. For the second month in a row, the seasonally adjusted jobless rate dropped a half a percentage point, down to 5.2%. That …

Arizona's jobless rate back to pre-pandemic level

10/21/2021
PHOENIX — Arizona's jobless rate finally dropped last month to where it was when the COVID-19 pandemic began. And the state has regained virtually all of the private sector jobs it …

Lawsuit contends Ducey broke law by cutting extra …

9/6/2021
PHOENIX — A new lawsuit charges Gov. Doug Ducey violated state law when he unilaterally cut off the extra $300 a week the unemployed in Arizona were getting. Legal papers filed Friday in …