Low world oil prices are forcing tough decisions on the US state of Alaska.
It gets almost 90 per cent of its budget from royalties and taxes on the oil industry.
But more than a year of low prices has left it billions of dollars short to fund schools, health care, and roads.
Al Jazeera’s Daniel Lak reports Valdez.
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