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. There is no evidence that half of the weapons supplied to Ukraine by the United States are being sold to ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. Gov. Hobbs’ administration submitted a report to the Arizona Legislature in January estimating that state ...

Yes. Gov. Hobbs’ administration submitted a report to the Legislature in January estimating that state agencies would need an additional $339 million to maintain operations or programs. These ...

Get AZCIR’s latest investigations and updates delivered straight into your inbox, for free. The majority of Medicaid fraud is committed by providers. Fraud by beneficiaries, like selling prescription ...

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 ...

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Yes. The federal government has enforcement authority over federal crimes like crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, even if they happen on tribal land. Tribal law enforcement officers generally ...

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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