Job losses in nearly every sector expected for 2017

Like most other sectors of the economy, state jobs are in decline. Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development economists predict a shrinking economy in 2017 as the state struggles to recover from low oil prices and a loss of billions in revenue from the oil and gas industry. (Photo by Andrew Kitchenman/KTOO)Thousands of Alaskans lost their jobs in 2016, and in the forecast for 2017, it doesn’t look like the economy is going to stop shrinking anytime soon.
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