The Weekly Top 3 (7.23.2024)

Another step in the Orwellianization of Alaska budget terms, what explains the outmigration of working-age #AKfamilies & what effect does Ethan Schutt’s reappointment have on the Permanent Fund Board

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of July 22, 2024.

The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on Facebook and YouTubeLive as well as via streaming audio from the Show’s website weekdays from 6–8am. I join Michael weekly in the first hour of Tuesday’s show, from 6:10–7am, for a discussion between the two of us about our three issues.

This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain how the term “surplus” has become another step in the Orwellianization of Alaska budget terms (2:05); 2) we discuss what is driving what some are now saying is the long-term outmigration of working Alaska families and why the Alaska “anomaly” isn’t really an anomaly after all (20:09); and 3) we ask (and answer) whether the reappointment of Ethan Schutt to the Permanent Fund Board is a positive, negative, or a status quo development (38:04).

The segment is at the YouTube clip above. For those who prefer the audio version, it is available on our Spotify and Soundcloud pages. And for those interested, a rough draft of the transcript of each show from July 23, 2024 forward is available through our Buzzsprout page.

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