The realities of Alaska's bush economy.
Alaska Business Monthly › Vol. 9 Nbr. 8, August 1993
Linked as:
Extract
The realities of Alaska's bush economy.
Recent rounds of budget cuts increase the financial plight of the state's rural communities.
Sen. Georgianna Lincoln pulls out the letter she received from constituents in Mentasta just yesterday, pleading for help with a crisis: There is no running water in the village health clinic, rendering it unusable. Lincoln says such circumstances are widespread in many parts of rural Alaska, where a costly decades-long war on poverty and several unique economic development experiments seem to have made little dent in the chronic economic plight of the Bush region. "We're a third world out there," she says. As the state budget declines and Alaska's overall economy limps along, many urban Alaskans are tempted to conjure a hundred stereotypes as they deplore the drain of public money to fund r...See the full content of this document
Sponsored links
