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2020 Great Innovation: Alaskan Club Built Lane Shields to Fight COVID-19

2020 Great Innovation: Alaskan Club Built Lane Shields to Fight COVID-19
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2020 Year in Review, part 1: Pandemic upends Alaska economy

2020 Year in Review, part 1: Pandemic upends Alaska economy
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Alaska faces huge short-term and long-term budget problems, and the Permanent Fund is at the center of both

Print article Shortly before his death in 2005, Jay Hammond concisely expressed his vision for the Alaska Permanent Fund. “I wanted to transform oil wells pumping oil for a finite period into money wells pumping money for infinity,” the former Alaska governor wrote. For the first time since the Permanent Fund was created in 1976, the state of Alaska is seriously considering a step away from that vision. Gov. Mike Dunleavy has proposed spending billions from the fund to pay for a $5,000 stimulus in 2021. Such a stimulus is badly needed, economists say: Unemployment is high, thousands of Alaskans aren’t caught up on their rent and many residents don’t have enough to eat.

Despite funding cuts, the University of Alaska is reinventing itself

Despite funding cuts, the University of Alaska is reinventing itself Author: Tim Bradner Published December 19, 2020 Share on Facebook Print article These are gloomy times. It’s December, and it’s dark. Vaccines are arriving but COVID-19 will be with us for a while. Our economy is suffering. We need some good news. Consider our University of Alaska. Not too long ago things looked bleak for our state university. Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s first budget director, Donna Arduin, wanted to gut UA with a 41% cut to state funding. Her vision for our university was a community college operating at a rock-bottom budget.

Latest Alaska unemployment numbers show continued economic stagnation

Latest Alaska unemployment numbers show continued economic stagnation Published December 18, 2020 Share on Facebook Print article New unemployment claims data shows Alaskans are continuing to lose work as the COVID-19 pandemic wears on. The data for last week shows there were 4,809 initial unemployment claims, up 284 from the previous week. There were 19,980 continuing claims. “It’s confirmation that Alaska’s labor market is still in a pretty dark place,” University of Alaska Anchorage economics professor Mouhcine Guettabi said. On Friday, the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development announced November employment was at 293,500 jobs, down 7.4% from a year prior. Leisure and hospitality jobs were down 22% a loss of 7,000 jobs from last November, the state said.

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