During the recession, Arizona took a bigger hit than many other states. According to Dr. George Hammond, director of University of Arizona’s Economic and Business Research Center, jobs in the state declined 12 percent while the national average declined at about 6 percent. “The problem is that Arizona has yet to replace those jobs,” Hammond…
Living life on a minimum wage is no easy task for Arizonans. Ask Christina Munoz. For Munoz and her family, Arizona’s minimum wage isn’t a livable wage. “No one can live off of $8 an hour or even unemployment checks. A livable, minimum wage would be like $10-$12 an hour, not $8. There is so…
Similar to the World Cup and the Olympic games, the Super Bowl is often seen as a cash cow to the city that hosts this major sporting event. Will Sunday’s Super Bowl in Glendale be a boom or a bust? There’s no easy answer to that question. The event is estimated to bring $500 million…
