It's not about the leavers. New arrivals are staying away in droves, driving Alaska to an unprecedented 12th year of net negative migration.
This year is shaping up to be the 12th in a row in which Alaskans leaving the state outnumber new people moving in.
“In the most recent year, outmigration was lower than the 10-year average,” he said Thursday at a migration summit at the University of Alaska Anchorage. “It was lower than the 20-year average.”“It’s an exchange. There’s in and out,” he said. “We tell stories about the out. These are our neighbors who leave. It’s harder to tell stories about the people who don’t come. But they both matter, and the net is what matters more than anything.
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