Anchorage’s economic forecast for 2017

The data has been gathered, the numbers have been crunched and the results are in — Anchorage is in a recession, according to a Anchorage Economic Development Corporation (AEDC) report. It will be the first since the 1980s. But hope is not lost.
Bill Popp, the AEDC’s president and CEO joined Daybreak on Thursday with a breakdown of that report, and possible soulutions.
According to that report, Anchorage could lose about 2,200 jobs in 2017, or one-and-a-half percent. If those nu