Alaska has the highest health care costs (per capita) in the nation. There are many reasons for this, and one that has been receiving great attention in recent years is what is commonlyRead More
The Hard Truth About Medicaid Expansion
The following op-ed was published in the Anchorage Daily News, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Delta Discovery, the Peninsula Clarion, and the Ketchikan Daily News in February 2019. It’s time for a reality check.Read More
Perspective: Impact of FY2018 Supplemental Budget Education Funding Reduction
When Governor Dunleavy announced he would be submitting a supplemental budget with a $20 million reduction to education funding for fiscal year 2018, there was a fair amount of angst expressed by theRead More
APF Donors Meet Kimberley Strassel at Insiders’ Briefing
Key supporters of the Alaska Policy Forum had the pleasure of spending a private evening with renown writer Kimberley Strassel recently. Avid political watchers will know Strassel from the Wall Street Journal’s “PotomacRead More
Third-Grade Literacy: Alaska’s students must Read by 9
The Problem Statistics for literacy among Alaska’s children are dismal. Alaska’s K-12 education system has arguably the worst student outcomes in the nation in the fundamental task of teaching children to read byRead More