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Zillow has stopped buying houses because of labor and supply shortages

ASU Professor of Real Estate Mark Stapp told PBS’s 'Arizona Horizons' that home renovation is yet another industry struggling with shortages.

Fact check: Cargo backlog due to supply chain snags, not executive order

The increasingly popular claim that cargo backlog is due to ships being 'banned from doing business on our soil' has been fact-checked. Instead, snags in the supply chain are to blame.

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp experience worldwide outage

The Facebook testimony occurred a day after Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp all experienced a worldwide shutdown. To learn more about what happened and talk about concerns over how dependent the world seems to be on Facebook, Arizona PBS spoke to an ASU information systems expert.

Just breathe: Wellness workshops address stress

Yoga and meditation help Arizona State University faculty and students prepare for the challenges of returning to campus.

Raley's acquisition of Bashas' gives regional grocers more help in competition with big players

After Arizona supermarket chain Bashas' announced Oct. 1 that it would agree to an acquisition by a regional grocery company in California, the question that pops out in hindsight is: Why didn't this happen before?

State’s hospital profits soar

Arizona hospitals overall saw huge increases in their profits last year despite — or more likely, because of — COVID-19.

Phoenix is thriving. Here's why

A deep dive into Phoenix's burgeoning economy and growing real estate market shows the Valley is an attractive location for all types of investors.

Small businesses left vulnerable to broken supply chain

Although the holiday shopping season hasn't started, goods we rely on are stuck at sea as container ships wait in record numbers to deliver products to U.S. ports, hurting small businesses.

A report from ASU says the $3.5 trillion infrastructure bill could mean more than $115B for Arizona

A new report by ASU’s Seidman Research Institute that was led by economist Dennis Hoffman shows that if the $3.5 trillion is implemented, Arizona’s economy would be helped significantly.

Biden tax proposal would cost Arizona thousands of jobs, ASU report estimates

The president's proposal to increase the United States' Global Intangible Low-Tax Income (GILTI) tax will lead to job losses at 266 public companies in Arizona, according to the Seidman Research Institute.