SOURCE: MGN ANCHORAGE (KTUU) – Economists at the University of Alaska’s Institute of Social and Economic Research are starting to piece together the bigger picture of what mandatory workplace closures across the state will mean, for both long and short term scenarios.
Before COVID-19 brought the state’s economy to a halt, Alaska was slowly climbing its way out of a 6-7 year long recession. Mouhcine Guettabi is one of the research who was studying that process. ISER typically focuses on the state economy, and the role that our permanent fund dividends play as a form of universal basic income.
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