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Stories by Blake Freas
Posted Aug 12, 2020, 1:27 pm
Blake Freas
/Cronkite News
The number of people on Arizona’s Medicaid rolls topped 2 million this summer, after a five-month surge in enrollment that coincided with COVID-19’s hit to the state’s health and its economy.... Read more»
Posted Jul 16, 2020, 12:12 pm
Blake Freas
/Cronkite News
Arizona’s interstate highways are in generally good shape, but they experienced the highest rate of fatalities in the nation in 2018, according to a national report released Tuesday.... Read more»
Posted Jul 2, 2020, 12:29 pm
Blake Freas
/Cronkite News
There’s often not much agreement on news out of Washington, but Arizona business leaders were hard-pressed this week to come up with negatives about the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement that took effect Wednesday.... Read more»
Posted Jun 30, 2020, 11:00 am
Blake Freas
/Cronkite News
Arizona posted one of the sharpest unemployment drops in the country in May, falling from a historic high of 13.4% in April to 8.9% last month, according to the latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.... Read more»
Posted May 28, 2020, 2:12 pm
Blake Freas
/Cronkite News
Arizona cities and counties will get access to nearly $600 million in COVID-19 relief funding, part of the more than $1.8 billion awarded two months ago to Arizona under the federal CARES Act.... Read more»