Welcome to The Weekly Top 3 — our look at the top 3 things on our mind here at Alaskans for Sustainable Budgets — for the week of February 9, 2026.

This week, our top 3 issues are these: 1) we explain how the response of the House Finance Committee to the Governor’s proposed fiscal plan badly fails working class Alaska families (2:08), 2) we discuss how their reaction to the Governor’s proposed fiscal plan proves even “progressives” really don’t care about the economic situation faced by working class Alaska families (19:18), and 3) we explain how the new data on non-resident workers acts as a report card on how the Legislature is treating working age Alaska families, giving them a failing grade (39:39).

The Weekly Top 3 is a regular weekly segment on The Michael Dukes Show. The Show broadcasts on Facebook and YouTubeLive as well as via streaming audio from the Show’s website weekdays from 6–8am. We join Michael weekly in the first hour of Tuesday’s show, from 6:25–7am, for a discussion between the two of us about our three issues.