Government data shows Arizona family structure in crisis, directly ties to higher poverty and crime rates, larger Medicaid and welfare costs PHOENIX – Arizona ranks 35th in the nation for family stability, according to the 2026 Family Structure Index (FSI), a new...
Peter Garbow
The Tool Arizona Needs to Use
The most underused tool for fighting poverty in Arizona isn't a new program. It's a wedding ring. Recently, Center for Arizona Policy and the Institute for Family Studies released the 2026 Family Structure Index, a national study that ranks Arizona’s family structure...
Families Win. Twice.
Last week brought two major court victories for families, and the states that spent years fighting them are now paying the price—literally. For Arizona parents, it was a week worth celebrating. SCOTUS Rules for Counselors and Families, 8-1 On March 31, the U.S....
Supreme Court Strikes Down Viewpoint Censorship in Counseling. 8-1 Victory for Families and Free Speech
PHOENIX — Today, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a landmark 8-1 ruling in Chiles v. Salazar, declaring that Colorado's law censoring counselors' speech, as applied to talk therapy, regulates speech based on viewpoint and violates the First Amendment. The decision,...
Big Tech’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week
On Tuesday, Meta lost in New Mexico. On Wednesday, Meta and YouTube lost in California. Meta says it plans to appeal. Some days Big Tech just wants to move to Australia. Too bad Australia banned kids from social media. The losses were not small. A Santa Fe jury...
Two Petitions. One Target. Your Family’s Freedom.
Educational freedom is under a two-front assault. Here’s what you need to know—and what you can do. I have a bracket filled out and a No. 1 seed I am trying not to get my hopes up about. Wildcats fans know better. But it is March, and you cannot help yourself (Bear...
ADE Data Debunks False ESA Fraud Claim
The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) has released the results of a rigorous statistical analysis — conducted by a Stanford PhD — that sets the record straight on Empowerment Scholarship Account spending and confirms what ESA families already know: this program...
A Victory for Every Parent in America
The Supreme Court just told California—and every state—that it cannot cut parents out of their own children’s lives. Imagine sending your daughter to school one morning—and learning, a year later in a hospital room, that the school had spent every day building her an...
Don’t Sign Away Your Neighbor’s Freedom
The school union-backed ballot initiative isn’t about reform. It’s a calculated demolition of the most successful educational freedom program in the nation. Imagine a family with three children. Two are thriving in their district school. The third is falling...
Federal Government Investigates Arizona Health Department for Violating Conscience Rights of Faith-Based Organizations
HHS Office for Civil Rights Opens Formal Probe After Complaint Alleges ADHS Coerced Providers to Abandon Religious Beliefs Under Threat of Losing Licenses PHOENIX — The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights has launched a formal...