The $12.3 billion operating budget includes a $2,270 dividend and $175 million one-time school funding, matching the $680 BSA increase vetoed by the governor.
The reports arrive as AIDEA seeks permission from the Alaska Legislature to borrow as much as $300 million for a variety of as-yet-unidentified mining projects.
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In September 2022, Alaska economists Gregg Erickson and Milt Barker, two of the leading experts on the history of Alaska’s state government, did a financial analysis of the Alaska Industrial Development & Export Authority.
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