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DON’T BELIEVE THE HYPE! WHAT THE MAYOR CALLS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS REALLY TRICKLE DOWN ECONOMICS!

4 min read by Brian Flagg In Mayor Rothschild’s opinion piece in Friday’s Star  (7-8-2016) he claims that there is “a new sense of pride, optimism, and excitement in our city because of the City’s economic development efforts.” My question is, according to whom? The Tucsonans that make less than $10 an hour? According to the Star article (7-8-2016) about the $12 an hour minimum wage initiative, a quarter of the workforce in Arizona makes less than $10 an hour. Certainly he is not talking about the 60,000 daily Sun Tran riders, many whom live in poverty, who are facing a large fare increase in

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