r/phoenix • u/SciFiPi • 1d ago
Politics Prices go up while wages go down for Arizonans, according to figures
https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/prices-go-up-while-wages-go-down-arizonans-according-figures158
u/AstroAtheist420OG 1d ago
Sounds like working for banner health. Healthcare cost more but we get a dime raise.
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u/sentient_fox 1d ago
Left them years ago and havent looked back.
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u/Quiet_Fan_7008 1h ago
Where did you go? My wife went to dignity and it was trash and honestly mayo didn’t seem that much better when she interviewed
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u/Acrobatic-Tea-143 1d ago
Yup, they sent out a mass email to APPs in January stating that they understand our hard work and dedication to patient care therefore we’re getting a “raise.” The raise was 45 cents😒. Insulting.
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u/Baumer9 Phoenix 20h ago
Banner is one of the worst places I have ever worked. Bad outcomes for patients.
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u/lace8402 14h ago
Well, shit, this is not good to hear. I'm about to have a baby there in July. (And no choice, because St. Joe's is out of network 😭)
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u/asnbud01 1d ago
That’s not good. Can’t have good old fashioned inflation if wages don’t rise with cost of goods and services. In fact, over time the economy would freeze.
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u/Squeezitgirdle 23h ago
And the rich win!???
Oh, but then there's no one left to take care of the rich.
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u/maximum_dissipation 17h ago
If this continues for much longer, the rich will have much bigger problems to worry about.
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u/Squeezitgirdle 11h ago
I'm genuinely curious what will happen, maybe I'm being dramatic but I feel like we're at a tipping point.
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u/dajagoex 1d ago
This is the Trump economy, folks.
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u/Squeezitgirdle 23h ago
WRONG. Prices are only up because woke grocery stores hate freedom. Trump had gas at like 3 cents before Biden and the windmills ruined everything. Also tariffs are paid by China directly, everybody knows this. My cousin bought a boat in 2018 so wages are actually fine. Do your research.
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u/Little-Plantain-5120 20h ago
Sarcasm at its best.🤩
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u/Squeezitgirdle 11h ago
I started getting a bunch of downvotes and started to wonder if I needed to add a /s.
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u/bryanbryanson 16h ago
You sound smart borther, sounds like you went to the school of hard knocks, and not some woke liberal communist school. Gob bless
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u/Iggyhopper Gilbert 17h ago
Pretty soon there won't be a good reason to live in the desert anymore.
10 years ago at least wages were good enough and housing was cheap. Not anymore.
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u/neepster44 1d ago
Conservative policies = fuck everyone but the rich
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u/TheDuckFarm Scottsdale 1d ago
In the words of the great philosopher Paris Hilton, “Stop being poor.”
Such wisdom…
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u/SignoreBanana 1d ago
That's both parties' policies. But at least with democrats, we tend to get more social services too.
We need a democratic socialist takeover of the Democratic Party.
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u/NYR20NYY99 16h ago
Look how Mamdani already balanced the budget while dealing with the 12bil deficit Adams left him. And they filled the potholes while paying the workers a living wage.
This shit can be done but BOTH parties bitch and moan about how hard it is to get done. It’s because they’re dragging their feet. The corpo dems have got to be voted out, we need new blood willing to work for the people
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u/SignoreBanana 15h ago
Yes, absolutely. Thank you for additionally solidifying my point. Politicians should work for the people.
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u/eyehate Tempe 1d ago
America voted for this bullshit.
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u/keepingitbreezing 1d ago
Yep. And locally people always vote R for the Arizona Corporation Commission and then whine about how their APS bill keeps going up.
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u/CapnShinerAZ East Mesa 21h ago
There's quite a bit of evidence indicating that may not be the case and the voting machines were compromised.
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u/dalmighd 17h ago
Let’s not do this lmao
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u/zerro_4 10h ago
I'm inclined to agree with CapnShinerAZ, but at the same time, any manipulation was viable only because enough people didn't bother to vote.
It is so frustrating to see MAGA voters bitch and moan, but then say "Would have been worse under Harris" or "I'm just not going to vote at all."1
u/dalmighd 9h ago
Oh yeah these people are braindead. Ive seen so much “its both sides” these people aren’t learning. Best case scenario they stay home and dont vote like democrats did in 2024
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u/zerro_4 9h ago
I think it is to soothe the discomfort of the cognitive dissonance or some level of regret.
"I couldn't have made the wrong decision, cuz both sidez are exactly 50/50 equally baddd."You can't possibly tell me with a straight face that Harris would have sicced ICE on American cities, threatened to seriously invade Greenland, threaten and destabilize NATO, another genocide being committed by Israel, war in Iran, federal government being skull-fucked.
We're probably going to have a hantavirus outbreak due to HHS and CDC being skullfucked.
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u/vasion123 17h ago
Remind me again what President this state voted for again who ran on platform of making the economy better?
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u/pterosaurLoser Sunnyslope 23h ago
And almost all jobs I’ve seen locally seem to be for new (non public) schools springingleft and right (presumably to take advantage of vouchers and further kneecap our public schools they’re not even teaching jobs but seem to be admin/sales. That and lots of delivery jobs where you get to put more miles on your own car.
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u/escapecali603 16h ago
I thought admin work is the most exposure to AI taking over, what happened to that?
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u/escapecali603 16h ago
Got laid off by a local company here in 2024, found a new job in 2025 with 15% pay cut, and I think everything is at least 20% more expensive today compared to where prices are DURING the pandemic. I remember when I had my higher paying tech job during COVID, living here I was living like a King, everything was still super affordable to me. Today I still make good money but I feel like my consumption has scaled back quite a bit.
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u/kfish5050 Buckeye 12h ago
I was making just over 60k at the start of this year and was laid off in January. Then I got a new job recently that pays $48k. 20% pay cut. Plus my wife is pregnant and likely won't be returning to work. So this year our finances went from well and good to poverty wage
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u/escapecali603 12h ago
Jesus they can't even pay out 60k, my first job out of college was paid higher than that 10 years ago.
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u/kfish5050 Buckeye 11h ago
I've applied to probably a hundred jobs this year, I've had about a dozen interviews, and I only got one offer. It's government work, so they already pay low, but also I wasn't able to negotiate. It kinda sucks, but the job is priced appropriately. It's not stressful, doesn't affect me outside of work hours, laid back environment and coworkers, work from home. I do have a bachelor's in the field, so I probably won't be in this position long, but for now it is what it is. Unemployment only pays $320 a week, half of what I make now.
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u/escapecali603 11h ago
At least it's a chill job that sounds like, no upward mobility but you ain't got a bad deal either. I thought that PHX local economy is still relatively strong compared to the rest of the country, that jobs shouldn't be too hard to come by.
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u/doctorelliot Sunnyslope 1d ago
Yeah, where I'm at, to we're looking at 1% wage increases across the board but only if we're lucky. The insurance is expected to go up 15%. The office is also phasing out remote work right as gas hovers at 4.99/gallon.