Workforce shortages could sabotage Anchorage and Alaska economic opportunities, report says

There are big projects underway or on the horizon but fewer fewer working-age residents to take the associated jobs, a ‘weird combination’ of conditions

By Yereth Rosen, Alaska Beacon August 3, 2023
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Having more people leave Alaska than enter it and the aging of the adult population that remains has put Alaska’s largest city and the state as a whole at risk of squandering some historic economic opportunities, according to a new three-year outlook report released Wednesday by the nonprofit Anchorage Economic Development Corp.

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