Kodiak Island Borough has highest rent in Alaska

The Kodiak Island Borough has the highest rent in the state. That’s according to a publication from the Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development that looks at the cost of living in Alaska and economic trends for July 2016.
Bill Cope (right) and a butcher shop employee pose in 20th Century Market in downtown Juneau around 1950. (Photo courtesy of Violet Cope and featured on cover of Alaska Economic Trends, July 26, Volume 36 number 7.)Alyssa Rodrigues, an economist with the Al