Alaska’s struggling economy shows no obvious signs of ‘organic’ recovery, UAA economist says
Share on Facebook
Print article Alaska’s economy isn’t getting worse, but it could be a long way from substantial improvement. Many of the indicators showing improvements in recent months are more tied to the normal seasonality of the state’s economy and less about a recovery from the forces of the pandemic, said Mouchine Guettabi, an economist with the University of Alaska Anchorage Institute for Social and Economic Research. “Our losses ballooned over the summer and then shrunk back down in fall and the winter. That doesn’t mean things are getting better; it just means that we’re losing, or had, fewer jobs in the economy,” Guettabi told a virtual audience during a presentation hosted April 9 by the Alaska policy think-tank Commonwealth North.
Alaska Journal | ISER: struggling economy needs targeted help alaskajournal.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from alaskajournal.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.