The State of Alaska faces persistent budget challenges resulting from declining oil prices and production. Because current major revenue sources—petroleum and the Permanent Fund (POMV)—are not explicitly tied to internal economic activity, there is an “Alaska disconnect” between state growth and public revenue.
ISER researchers evaluated 11 primary fiscal options + […]
ISER researchers Matt Berman and Dayna DeFeo have released a new report updating their previous analyses of Alaska’s current per-pupil education spending. The report is available here: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/15717
In 2022, K-12 schools in Alaska spent $20,191 per student for current operations, which was […]
UPDATE: Since this report was released, the Assembly has been considering modifications to the sales tax proposal, and it could be modified further before it is placed on the ballot for a vote. for the most up-to-date version of the sales tax proposal, please visit: https://www.muni.org/Departments/Assembly/Pages/Project-Anchorage-Sales-Tax-Proposal.aspx. In […]
The purpose of this report is to document economic and demographic changes for communities of the Gulf of Alaska, Southcentral Alaska, and Southeast Alaska over the period of 1950 to 2023. Over this period several major changes were made to the way that State and Federal commercial fisheries were […]
CBHRS researchers, as part of a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) national effort, collaborated with healthcare professionals and healthcareorganizations to implement evidence-based practices found to reduce unhealthy alcohol use and alcohol-exposed pregnancies. Alcohol-exposed pregnancies […]
Alcohol-exposed pregnancies, which can lead to fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASDs), is one of the most common preventable causes of lifelong intellectual and developmental disabilities in the U.S. Healthcare teams […]
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