An important measure of consumer prices showed that inflation slowed in April, but remained close to a four-decade high.The Personal Consumption Expenditures price index rose 0.2 percent last month from March and was up 6.3 percent from…
Alaska had about 6,700 more jobs last month than a year earlier but jobs in most sectors had not recovered to pre-pandemic levels, the state labor department reported Friday.There were about 11,800 fewer jobs in April than there were in…