Alaska Economic Trends
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![Cover Outlook For Alaska Jobs in 2024](/sites/default/files/trends-mag-thumbs/trends_10.jpg)
Annual employment forecasts for Anchorage, Fairbanks, Southeast, and statewide
![Cover The Role of Nonresident Workers in the Recovery](/sites/default/files/trends-mag-thumbs/trends_12.jpg)
How many nonresidents an industry hires doesn't always tell the whole story. Here are a few Alaska industry examples from the two years after COVID hit and what different residency and worker count scenarios can signal about an industry or the economy.
![Cover How States Gained Or Lost Movers Historically](/sites/default/files/trends-mag-thumbs/trends_11.jpg)
To put Alaska's current streak of net migration losses into context, we looked at how it compares to the rest of the country over the last century. Which states have been through similar periods of net migration losses, why, and how long did they last?
![Cover Cost increases slowed considerably in 2023](/sites/default/files/trends-mag-thumbs/cover.jpg)
After two high years, the inflation rate dropped to 1.5 percent
Population patterns after COVID
![Cover Housing Market Continues To Cool](/sites/default/files/trends-mag-thumbs/trends_13.jpg)
Alaska home sales prices and interest rates continued to rise in 2023, putting a damper on affordability.
![Cover Alaska Women In Construction](/sites/default/files/trends-mag-thumbs/trends_14.jpg)
Women make up just 14 percent of Alaska's construction workers, and as demand for construction labor rises, hiring more women could help broaden the worker pool. What might make the difference?
![Cover The Cost of Living](/sites/default/files/trends-mag-thumbs/trends_15.jpg)
Alaska's inflation slowed to a more historically typical rate in 2023. See the second part of the article for cost comparisons around Alaska and comparisons to other U.S. cities.
![Cover Trends In Household Debt](/sites/default/files/trends-mag-thumbs/trends_16.jpg)
Types of debt, recent patterns, and what the data suggest