The Weekly Top 3 (8.7.2023)
Channel: Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets
Date: 2023-08-08

Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 - our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets - for the week of August 7, 2023.

The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on Facebook and YouTubeLive as well as via streaming audio from the Show's website weekdays from 6–8am. I join Michael weekly in the first hour of Tuesday's show, from 6:25–7am, for a discussion between the two of us about our three issues.

This week our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain how PFDcuts have been used to buy the state's new higher bond rating, in other words, how it has been built on the back of middle & lower income Alaska families (2:03); 2) we discuss why it's significant that contributions by non-residents engaged in economic activity in the state be included as part of the state's overall fiscal plan (10:39); and 3) we explain our concern with the policy of disqualifying from the University's Board of Regents those who may have previously pushed for spending cuts at the University (27:38).