Society: Leery of Washington, Alaska Feasts on Its Dollars

Alaska has budget woes, and, more perilously, oil production is slumping. But its problems are not mortal; the ax falls on new police headquarters and replacement Zamboni blades rather than on teachers and libraries. The state avoided the unemployment devastation visited on the Lower 48 in part because federal dollars support a third of Alaskan jobs, according to a university study. [Emphasis added].

For more, see Leery of Washington, Alaska Feasts on Its Dollars by Michael Powell, August 18, 2010, at The New York Times. Thanks to Martha L.