Alaska Permanent Fund
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The Alaska Permanent Fund is a constitutionally established permanent fund and sovereign wealth fund managed by a state-owned corporation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation. It was established in
APFC board meeting in February 2020. Then-CEO Angela Rodell addresses the board.
Universal basic income
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Universal basic income is a social welfare proposal in which all members of a given population regularly receive a minimum income in the form of an unconditional transfer payment, i.e., without a mean
Alaska Permanent Fund
…dollars). The main use for the fund's revenue has been to pay out the Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD), which many authors portray as the only example of a basic income in practice. Shortly after the oil from Alaska's North Slope began flowing to market through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, the Permanent Fund was…
In 2013, eight million 5-centime coins (one per inhabitant) were dumped on the Bundesplatz in Bern to support the 2016 Swiss referendum for a basic income (which was rejected 77% – 23%).
Philippe Van Parijs in his library
Omitara, one of the two poor villages in Namibia where a local basic income was tested in 2008–2009