Any data from the state about how the state is doing is self-serving, fake news. It's like Fox News rating how Fox News is doing. The state uses unemployment claims to determine which way jobs are going. I've had work interrupted (job loss, company failure, contract end) many times in the last decades. But I have never filed an unemployment claim. I wouldn't even know where or how to do this. And there are many people like me in Alaska. That ADN publishes this fake data from the state just makes for more fake news fodder for ADN.