ISER talk April 22: Can the Alaska PFD program be exported?

Friday, April 22, Noon-1 p.m.
Diplomacy Building, Room 301
4500 Diplomacy Drive

Please join us for informal presentations at UAA's Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER). It's a way for ISER researchers and others from the public and private sectors to talk about topics of interest.

Alaska's Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) program makes annual cash payments to every Alaska resident from the earnings of the Permanent Fund, the state's multi-billion-dollar savings account. That fund was built with state oil revenues and policymakers created the program in the 1970s as a way of directly sharing the state's oil wealth with individual Alaskans. The dividend program has attracted worldwide attention over the years. Now Karl Widerquist, from Georgetown University-Qatar, and Michael Howard of the University of Maine, are editing a book that will examine whether other states and countries should consider establishing similar programs to distribute resource wealth.

For more information, please contact Celesta Richardson at ayiser@uaa.alaska.edu or call (907) 786-7710.