Mary Daly
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1,237 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Aug 2025
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Well, you have to import a lot of the things that we
take for granted, you know, whether it's healthcare products or things that you can use for your buildings or simple groceries and shoes and other things.
Now we import a lot of that stuff to the broader US, but the shipping costs to come all the way up to Alaska and then the distribution across the greater Alaskan region is very challenging.
There's transportation costs that if you only take that alone, really drive up the prices.
That's already a higher price level.
And then you add to it a higher inflation rate.
Well then it the pain that anyone might feel in the lower forty eight, that's just magnified in Alaska.
You put with that the fact that in the, you know, twenty years ago, wages in Alaska used to be higher than wages in the lower forty-eight.
But that gap has shrunk over the last twenty years.
And so now the wage levels are roughly the same and the prices are a lot higher and inflation is driving those up more.
And things aren't getting cheaper to import into Alaska.
And I think that's why people say, you know, it's just when I try to build a property, I'm a builder, and now I have to pay higher costs to ship things in.
And then if I get tariffs on top of that on the basic inputs, that just doesn't pencil out anymore.
And that's the equation they're dealing with.
It's just more expensive, it's harder, it's cold here, it's remote in many places.
And all of those put challenges that ultimately raise costs.
Sure, I'll start with Alaska since we're here and I've been talk meeting with businesses since I came.
But I'll go broaden it if you don't mind.
So on the Alaska, we're hearing very similar things to what we hear in the lower forty-eight.
We're hearing that
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