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 September 29, 2025.

This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we discuss Alaska’s K-shaped economy and how it helps explain outmigration (2:06 ); 2) we explain the parts of the story that the Permanent Fund Corp’s claims about a “successful” FY25 ignore (18:11 ); and 3) we discuss why op-eds proposing new or continued spending should come with a fiscal note (38:23 ).

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.