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2020 Alaska Economic Trends
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| March 2020 |
Trends in the School-Age Population |
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School-age children make up about 18 percent of Alaska today, down from a peak of 29.2 percent in 1970.
March 2020 Trends
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Total wages up 4.7 percent in the third quarter
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| February 2020 |
A Look at Alaska's 2019 Population |
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Alaska's population decreased 0.4 percent from July 2018 to July 2019, our new estimates show. The biggest drivers were a decline in the number of people moving to Alaska and fewer births.
February 2020 Trends
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Cordova
Unemployment claims over the last decade
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| January 2020 |
2020 Jobs Forecast |
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Alaska added about 1,600 jobs in 2019 after losing more than 11,000 during the recession of the prior three years. We forecast that trend will continue this year, but at a slower rate of 0.3 percent, or about 1,100 new jobs.
January 2020 Trends
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Forecasts for Anchorage, the Fairbanks area, and Southeast |
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