Job numbers bounced back slightly in August, but not as much as unemployment rates across the state would suggest. Southeast remains the hardest hit region in Alaska.
“The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined from 11.6 percent in July to 7.4 percent in August, but that decline was more the result of COVID-related disruptions to the statistical methods the Bureau of Labor Statistics uses to calculate rates than an improvement that large in Alaska’s economy,”…