Curious about this statement.  "employment estimates from the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development show that state government on the whole lost 1,400 jobs".

So a State Government department which is in charge of statistics, has to "estimate" what other State Government "employment" is?  I know that there are a plethora of government agencies and departments, (too many?) but with the advent of computers and inter government email, shouldn't this be a known number?  Makes one wonder at the veracity of the entire article.

So either the author of this article simply did online research, with journalistic flair and bias, guestimating where necessary, or we have another direct example of how inefficient government workers and departments really are.

True statistics should be based on facts, not guesses or estimates.