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Karen Norsworthy

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“you're not going to see an exact match because in negotiations you're trying to keep below the CPI-U when you can. Sometimes we do go above it in negotiations.”
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Alaska News
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Anchorage
Captured at
September 3, 2026

From the transcript

When looking at '24, it's 2.9, and you've got everything from a 1.4 to 7.8, 2.9. 3.3, And so forth. So you're not going to see an exact match because in negotiations you're trying to keep below the CPI-U when you can. Sometimes we do go above it in negotiations.

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