More than 2,000 Arizona children have been waitlisted for state child care assistance, according to the Department of Economic Security, and that number is likely to climb as the agency reviews ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. There is no evidence that funds from the Social Security Administration were redirected to support ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Before her fifth birthday, Rainy had experienced a lifetime of trauma. As an infant, she witnessed violence ...

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The Arizona Department of Economic security warned state leaders in 2024 that budget shortfalls would force the agency to reinstate a waitlist it took more than a decade to eliminate. The number of ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. There is no evidence that half of the weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States are being sold to ...

Arizona officials acknowledged that a fraud scheme targeting Indigenous people with addictions cost taxpayers $2.5 billion. But they haven’t accounted publicly for the number of deaths tied to the ...

No. There is no evidence that half of the weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States are being sold to Mexican cartels or other criminal organizations. The Department of Defense, including ...

No. There is no evidence that half of the weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States are being sold to Mexican cartels or other criminal organizations. The Department of Defense, including ...

No. There is no evidence that half of the weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States are being sold to Mexican cartels or other criminal organizations. The Department of Defense, including ...