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The Alaska Permanent Fund (APF) is a constitutionally established permanent fund managed by a state-owned corporation, the Alaska Permanent Fund Corporation (APFC). [1] It was established in Alaska in 1976 [2] by Article 9, Section 15 of the Alaska State Constitution [3] under Governor Jay Hammond and Attorney General Avrum Gross.
The Alaska Permanent Fund, which distributes money to Alaska residents annually, could be a model. Challenges include funding sources, legislative hurdles, and state-owned natural resources.
Alaska: Alaska Permanent Fund: 74.455 December 2022 [3] Petroleum: 2 Texas: Permanent School Fund: 55.624 August 2022 [4] Commodity / petroleum: 3 Permanent University Fund: 31.763 August 2022 [5] 4 New Mexico: New Mexico State Investment Council Permanent Funds 31.000 December 2020 [6] Petroleum: 5 Wyoming: Wyoming Permanent/Endowment Funds 12 ...
The U.S. state of Alaska dispenses a form of citizen's dividend in its Permanent Fund dividend, which holds investments initially seeded by the state's revenue from mineral resources, particularly petroleum. In 2005, every eligible Alaskan resident (including children) received a check for $845.76.
The Alaska Permanent Fund is often mentioned as one of the few existing basic income systems in the world. Since 1982, the Fund has paid a partial basic income to all (permanent) residents averaging approximately $1,600 annually per resident (adjusted to 2019 dollars) from the state's oil production revenues. [ 14 ]
Alaska is more than twice the size of the second-largest U.S. state (Texas), and it is larger than the next three largest states (Texas, California, and Montana) combined. Alaska is the seventh largest subnational division in the world. If it was an independent nation, it would be the 18th largest country in the world; almost the same size as Iran.
First Alaska Native woman elected to the Alaska House of Representatives, Co-sponsor of the bill that created the Alaska Permanent Fund Brenda Tiggausina Itta (born November 13, 1943) [ 1 ] is an Iñupiaq activist and former legislator in Alaska's House of Representatives .
The state created the Alaska Permanent Fund from this "golden egg", which is owned and managed by the state, and "created by a constitutional amendment": [60] In November 1976, Alaskans voted to amend their state constitution to create the Permanent Fund. The state constitution and supporting statutes set out the Fund's purpose and how it works.