Now that the legislative session is over, this week we look at how the Legislature proposes to finance the Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 budget and the resulting impact on Alaska households.
As in the previous seven years since the adoption of the percent-of-market-value (POMV) approach for drawing funds from the Permanent Fund to help pay for government…
Fiscal analysts use multiple lenses to evaluate whether a government budget is “balanced.” One is in an accounting sense of whether overall revenues equal...
Last week’s column focused on conducting a “thought experiment” on the Permanent Fund (Fund). It examined what would have happened if the balance of...