Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has recently been traveling the United States on a listening tour , during which he aspires to visit every state in which he has not previously spent time, learning about the concerns and perspectives of residents. While in Alaska, Zuckerberg mentioned the state’s Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) in a Facebook post , calling a “form of basic income” and commending it as a model for social welfare policy [1]: Alaska has a form of basic income called the Permanent Fund Dividend. Every year, a portion of the oil revenue the state makes is […]
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