Governor’s office censorship of labor data is troubling

Dan Robinson

COMMENTARY

Alaska Economic Trends, a magazine our research and analysis team at the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development publishes, was unusually thin this month because the governor’s office pulled an article we’d written on teachers right before publication.

That has never happened before in my 20 years with the department. My friend and colleague Neal Fried, who recently retired after a 45-year career with us, said he’s also never heard of it happening.

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