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Unemployment insurance taxes (UI taxes) have significant effects on a state’s business climate, and unfortunately, Alaska’s system ranks 43rd out of 50, according to a recent report by the Tax Foundation. UI is […]
Alaska Policy Forum’s simple Legislative Vote Tracker tool allows you to easily see how your state representative and senator vote on bills. For example, 57 out of 60 state legislators voted in January […]
Alaska has received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds for education, most of which have gone straight to public school districts. Alaska Policy Forum (APF) has written extensively about […]
The state of Alaska has published the Alaska K–12 Education COVID-19 Federal Relief Funding Dashboard to make transparent how much federal COVID-19 relief funding school districts received and how the funds are being spent. In […]
Alaska has received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief funds, most of which have gone straight to public school districts. Collectively to date, schools have nearly $401 million in COVID-19 […]
March 25 was Alaska’s Tax Freedom Day (TFD)—the day Alaskans and businesses in Alaska had worked enough days to pay all state and local taxes for the year. This is the earliest state […]
Click here to open a printable PDF of the policy brief in a new tab. In Alaska, a worker who gets laid off must have at least one continuous year of work history […]
The ability to vote in a simple, fair, and secure election is one of the most basic civil rights in America. It is incredibly important that Alaskans trust the process and outcomes of […]
According to a report by our network partner, Tax Foundation, Alaska ranks 31st out of 50 states for how well-funded the public pensions are. As of 2020, one year after the Tax Foundation […]
A recent report about the economic impacts of states’ responses to the pandemic shows that there was a direct correlation between the number of jobs lost and how severe a state’s shutdown was, […]
This op-ed was originally published by the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner and the Mat-Su Frontiersman in February 2022. An entire decade. That’s how long Alaska’s public schools have ranked in the bottom five […]
The state of Alaska recently published the Alaska K–12 Education COVID-19 Federal Relief Funding Dashboard to make transparent how much federal COVID-19 relief funding school districts received and how the funds are being […]
Alaska’s unemployment numbers skyrocketed between 2020 and 2021 as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and the government’s response to it. As a result of the extremely high unemployment, the state was required […]
Introduction Alaska’s economy and Alaskans’ livelihoods were hit particularly hard by the government shutdowns associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, and Alaskans are struggling to recover. But businesses are now open, employment is slowly […]
Click here to view the interactive graphs (detached from the full report) For many years, the Department of Education and Early Development (DEED) has required the largest portions of state spending, with the Department […]