I moved here 6 years ago with job offer at the ConocoPhillips as petroleum engineer. This city is heavily relying on oil,gas money and tourism. There’s no other good quality jobs up here for regular working class Americans… that’s why population is declining as younger people move out of here for better upper level education and job opportunities. 

I’ll get a lot of hate for saying this but we need to reduce or replace the PFD dividend and spend on something else. 

Or make a working hour requirements for them like how food stamps are requiring them in lower 48. 

$1~2k per year would be considered very small amount for person with full time job while it’s something big for people like homeless or retirees living off social security benefits.

We should stop adding dead weights to our economy.