![]() ![]() It was just showing the first hints of recovery after three straight years of job losses.ĪDEC argued in a prepared statement that “sources of renewal in the economy cannot compensate for the damage being done by Alaska’s ongoing policy-induced recession.” The Anchorage Economic Development Corporation (AEDC) on Tuesday forecast the cuts will lock the economy of the state’s largest city in recession for several more years. Anchorage Mayor Ethan Berkowitz, a one-time Democrat candidate for governor, declared a “civil emergency” because of the loss of $5.8 million in state funding for local facilities to help house and feed the homeless.Ī statement from the mayor’s office predicted that the cuts – which equal about 1.1 percent of the municipal budget for the year – will spark an “unprecedented housing and public health and safety crisis.” Opponents of the budget cuts have forecast big time gloom and doom. Those undecided Democrats have likely picked a side since Dunleavy took that big, red pen to the budget in an effort to reduce a state deficit of more than $1 billion. Republicans and nonpartisans all had up or down views. Four percent of them couldn’t make up their mind. Given a margin of error of nearly 4 percent on the poll of 705 likely Alaska voters, that number could be even worse than it looks or split the Dem view 50-50 given that 44 percent thought the economy bad.ĭems represented the largest group of Alaskans undecided on this issue. Democrats were in the middle, but leaning toward the latter at 52 percent bad. Sixty-one percent thought the economy was perking along well back in March while an equal percentage of nonpartisans thought recessionary Alaska sucks. Republicans, who supported Dunleavy run for governor in November, are more upbeat about the state than their fellow Alaskans. How one views the economy also appears to be colored by politics. “The public hearing that stuff,” Larkin said, “you know how much the economy is about consumer confidence.” Partisan views Opponents of the cuts accused him of trying to destroy the University of Alaska, which lost 40 percent of its state funding doom the sick who take advantage of Medicaid cripple the elderly and continue the state’s already three-year-long recession. ![]() Mike Dunleavy and the Alaska Legislature went to war over the state budget.Īfter the Legislature refused to make significant cuts in state spending, Dunleavy vetoed about $400 million from the $5.3 billion state budget. ![]() Dittman pollster Matt Larkin said that tracking polls since spring show views on where Alaska is headed and what is happening with the economy have only worsened since Gov. Given the poll was conducted back in March, there might be more of them thinking that way now. In other words, 57 percent of today’s sourdoughs thought the economy had wobbled into the ditch. Outside the cheechako group, however, optimism faded fast.Ī bare majority – 52 percent – of those resident for 10 to 20 years saw the economy as good and for the true sourdoughs – 20-plus years in-country – the number dropped to 43 percent. ![]() #Negative nancy debbie downer south park fullIn the current economic climate, it found that Alaska old-timers hold the darkest view of where the state is headed while almost two-thirds of newcomers are cheerily optimistic.Ī full 65 percent of those who’ve spent nine years or less in-state judge the economy good, Dittman Research reported. An old northland joke describes an Alaska sourdough as someone who has gone sour on the country but lacks the dough to pay for passage to friendlier environments to the south.Īnd a poll conducted for the Alaska Chamber suggests there might be more than a little truth to the joke these days. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |