5,700 of the 7,200 Afghan evacuees who fled Afghanistan when the Taliban took over this summer have been resettled into new homes. 1,500 Afghans remain on the base.
Arizona spends a majority of its welfare budget on the Department of Child Safety. The agency then investigates many poor parents, sometimes removing their children for reasons stemming from their poverty.
Welfare reform allowed states to choose how they provide assistance to the poor or hardly provide it at all. In the rapidly changing Southwest, that has sometimes led to bizarre or impossible requirements for getting help.