The Arizona Food Bank Network is sounding the alarm over the new GOP spending package that will cut food stamps and further strain already stretched food banks.
Republicans argue cuts to Medicaid and food stamps are targeted to young men ‘playing video games all day,’ but advocates warn they will in fact harm Arizona parents and their kids.
Activists and medical professionals gathered at Arizona’s State Capitol to mark the Dobbs decision anniversary and warn against efforts to curb abortion access.
Phoenix has been a long-time hub for immigrants. But Trump’s new travel ban threatens people like Alenga Alokola, a Congolese refugee who came to the US for a better life.
An Arizona father who has lived in the US for 25 years appears to have been racially profiled by ICE and sent to the Florence Detention Center while on his way to work. His daughter, Denise Gutierrez, is now fighting to bring him home.
Dozens of Arizona students and activists rallied to protect education funding, amid Republican-backed budget cuts.
Mente, a new mental health initiative, held a one-of-a-kind event in downtown Phoenix last week to address the stigma surrounding mental health among Latinos.
Arizona Democratic Rep. Yassamin Ansari made an unannounced visit to the center, where she spoke with 15 women amid allegations of racism, abuse, and inadequate medical care.
House Republicans just voted to pass massive cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. All Arizona Republicans voted for the cuts, except Rep. David Schweikert, who was late to the vote, but said he would have supported the bill if he’d gotten a chance.
The arrests appear to be part of a nationwide trend this week in which individuals have shown up for their hearings only to have their cases dismissed by judges at the request of government prosecutors, and for ICE agents to then arrest them on courthouse grounds.
