Wikipedia:
The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a constitutionally established
permanent fund and sovereign wealth fund managed by a state-owned
corporation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC). It was
established in Alaska in 1976 by Article 9, Section 15 of the
Alaska State Constitution under Governor Jay Hammond and Attorney
General Avrum Gross. […] As of 2019, the fund was worth
approximately $64 billion that has been funded by oil and mining
revenues and has paid out an average of approximately $1,600
annually per resident (adjusted to 2019 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. […]The PFD is a Basic Income in the form of a resource dividend. Some
researchers argue, “It has helped Alaska attain the highest
economic equality of any state in the United States… And,
seemingly unnoticed, it has provided unconditional cash assistance
to needy Alaskans at a time when most states have scaled back aid
and increased conditionality.”
Alaska is not exactly a left-wing state. Again, money talks.
