Visit Alaska

My dad might be moving there (albeit temporarily)! Instant trip to AK!

Alaska’s unemployment rate, which fell to 8% in April, might not suggest that the state has a great job market. But the state’s urban employers are hungry for educated, skilled workers. Alaska’s tourism industry has been hit but its military bases, hospitals, and oil industry have stayed strong.

“The probability of getting a job, depending on your qualifications, is probably relatively high here,” says Scott Goldsmith, professor of economics at the University of Alaska Anchorage. “We haven’t been negatively impacted as much as the rest of the country.”

Goldsmith said it’s possible that out-of-work Californians who have come to Alaska looking for opportunities might be responsible for pushing up the unemployment rate a bit.

“In some sense, it’s the end of the road,” Goldsmith said. “You tend to get two kinds of people [moving to Alaska]: people running away from something or people looking for something. That ‘something’ historically has been opportunity—and there’s still some of it here.”

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I hate Sarah Palin.