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 18, 2025.

This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain why the EIA’s new oil price forecast suggests Alaska is on the precipice of slipping back into a steep, deficit-driven budgetary position for the remainder of FY26 and into FY27 (campaign year 2026) (2:16 ); 2) we explain why the growing problem with Social Security is likely to have a significant impact on Alaska (21:44 ); and 3) we explain how a recent proposal from the FNSB would only make the state’s K-12 funding issue even worse (41:88 ).

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. We 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.