Vickie Brown of SECON works on the Lemon Creek roundabout and sidewalk project in Juneau in 2021. Photo by Kim Andree.
Karinne Wiebold, economist with the Alaska Dept. of Labor and Workforce Development, details the growing demand for women in construction in Alaska. With the national shortage of construction workers, the industry is finding ways to broaden its worker pool by recruiting from a large group vastly underrepresented in its numbers — women.
The June edition also features a piece on the interaction of public and private sector jobs, and the monthly Gauging the Economy report.
Read the full edition here.
Trends is a nonpartisan, data-driven magazine that covers a variety of economic topics in Alaska.
Source: Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development, Research & Analysis
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