Arizona lags the U.S. and is in the middle of the pack among Western states for eighth grade math scores, according to the Making Action Possible Dashboard, a project of the University of Arizona Economic and Business Research Center.
Arizona middling in West, lags U.S. in math scores
Rent costs in Tucson are among the lowest among its Western peers but are rising fast, University of Arizona economists say.
Boosting education is seen as key to solving pandemic-driven labor shortages in Tucson and Arizona, economists and business leaders say.
Tucson lags most of its Western peer metro in a key measure of people employed and those looking for work, according to the MAP Dashboard, a p…
Tucson ranks highly for housing affordability despite a spike in home prices, according to the University of Arizona's Making Action Possible …
