By David Ramos/Getty Images. As Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg chips away at his New Year’s resolution to visit all 50 U.S. states—a tour that continues to raise questions about his political ambitions—he stopped in Alaska with his wife, Priscilla Chan, to highlight Silicon Valley’s favorite new policy proposal: giving everyone free money. Alaska, unlike other states, has its own form of basic income, known as the Permanent Fund Dividend, which allocates some of the state’s oil revenue to a fund that gets disbursed to Alaskan residents. Each Alaskan receives a chunk of money through the program; in 2016, every […]
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