This is idiotic. Hawaii has the worst living situation for teachers in the country, for instance (https://wallethub.com/edu/best-and-worst-states-for-teachers/7159/). Bringing them up a little actually is doing the right thing and corrects decades of mismanagement. Firefighters got pretty much nothing, when you factor in the freeze on healthcare coverage at a fixed amount without increases as rates rise. Still up is the UH faculty, who are also poorly paid by national standards. How does Ige plan to pull off a meaningful 55% with degrees by '25 if faculty can find much better living situations at other universities? They will bail.