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 October 23, 2023.
This week our top 3 issues are these: 1) in response to those who claim it's the PFD at fault for the current earnings reserve "problem," we do a side-by-side comparison of the payments made out of the earnings reserve for inflation proofing and the PFD over the past seven years (2:12); 2) we look at how changes in the labor force undercut the argument going forward that government spending is needed to create jobs (19:49); and 3) we take issue with DNR's proposal to issue net profits leases in the Cook Inlet (37:07).
