Junior Achievement | LNG Update | 2020 Economic Outlook
Happy New Year and New Decade! To help keep you from falling into the post-holiday doldrums, we’ve put together a very special issue of Alaska Business focused on the next generation of business professionals, the students of Junior Achievement (JA), and some of the talented people who have been contributing to the business community in one way or another for decades. We also present our annual economic forecast in this issue. Who knew that the majority of last year would be spent waiting for the legislature and governor to come to some sort of agreement as to just how much money would be cut from the budget? The state was predicted to emerge from this multi-year recession last year as oil production and prices recovered, but budgetary squabbles kept the economy (and its forecasts) depressed. According to state experts, this year’s outlook is once again cautiously optimistic.
