This week on Facing the Future we look at President Biden’s ambitious policy agenda with former Ambassador and New Hampshire Congressman Richard Swett. Then we go to Las Vegas with Concord Coalition Field Director Phil Smith and Jayce Farmer, professor of public policy at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, who uses Concord's Principles and Priorities budget exercise with his mid-career graduate students.

Facing The Future: Don't Keep it in Vegas

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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 January 13, 2025.

This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we discuss whether the legislature should fund the Alaska Gasline Development Corporation's "Hail Mary" to keep the #AKLNG project alive for yet another year (2:20), 2) to complement the Department of Labor's recent analysis of Alaska's population, we look at IRS data to examine where the drain in Alaska's working age population is by income bracket (18:54), and 3) we explain why the energy "royalty relief" touted by some as a solution to the Cook Inlet gas situation is, in fact, an unnecessary subsidy being taken out of the pockets of middle & lower-income Alaska families statewide (37:52).

The Weekly Top 3 (1.13.2025)

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