Arizona

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  Arizona investigating angry email sent lawmakers

  By Christina Silva  |  May 24, 2013

  Arizona's bitter debate over a signature part of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul has sparked an investigation into lawmakers' safety.

• Problems surface over Arizona’s 2007 immigration law

  By Jacques Billeaud  |  May 17, 2013

  The immigration debate in Arizona reached a boiling point in 2007 when the state passed a groundbreaking law targeting those often blamed with fueling the nation's border woes: Employers who hire immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.

• Arizona Senate to move budget over Medicaid fight

  By Bob Christie  |  May 15, 2013

  A long-awaited state budget that funds operations for the fiscal year beginning July 1 was introduced Tuesday in the Arizona Senate and could come up for a vote later this week, clearing the way for a debate on Gov. Jan Brewer's Medicaid expansion.

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  Study: Immigration bill would help Social Security

  By Erica Werner  |  May 8, 2013

  A bipartisan immigration bill pending in the Senate would strengthen the Social Security trust fund by adding millions of workers to tax rolls, and provide a boost to the overall economy, according to an analysis Wednesday by the Social Security Administration.

• Unemployment rates fall in 90 percent of US cities

  By Christopher S. Rugaber  |  May 1, 2013

  Unemployment rates fell in nearly 90 percent of large U.S. cities in March, though most of the declines likely occurred because more Americans stopped looking for work, rather than found jobs.

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  Fallout for states rejecting Medicaid expansion

  By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar  |  April 22, 2013

  Rejecting the Medicaid expansion in the federal health care law could have unexpected consequences for states where Republican lawmakers remain steadfastly opposed to what they scorn as "Obamacare."

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  Senators unveil sweeping immigration bill

  By Erica Werner  |  April 18, 2013

  Four Democratic and four Republican senators formally unveiled a sweeping immigration bill Thursday at a news conference attended by traditional opponents from big business and labor, conservative groups and liberal ones.

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  Both left and right bash immigration bill

  By Erica Werner  |  April 17, 2013

  To some conservatives, it's amnesty. To some advocates, it's unnecessarily punitive.

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  Bipartisan bill would remake immigration system

  By Erica Werner  |  April 16, 2013

  The U.S. immigration system would undergo dramatic changes under a bipartisan Senate bill that puts a new focus on prospective immigrants' merit and employment potential, while seeking to end illegal immigration once and for all by creating legal avenues for workers to come here.

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  Immigration bill could exclude many

  By Erica Werner  |  April 12, 2013

  A bipartisan immigration bill soon to be introduced in the Senate could exclude hundreds of thousands of immigrants here illegally from ever becoming U.S. citizens.