Familiar divisions over the Permanent Fund Dividend were on full display Monday as two bills proposing new formulas for the annual payment to Alaskans were heard in the Senate Finance Committee. In ...
When Gov. Mike Dunleavy released his proposed budget in December, he said he intended to allocate a Permanent Fund Dividend of $3,170. “We’re going to honor the law,” Dunleavy said at the press ...
All seven members of the Alaska Senate’s powerful finance committee on Monday proposed rewriting the payment formula for the ...
Editor’s note: This column is the third in a continuing series by the author about the Alaska Permanent Fund dividend and the state’s fiscal system. The Legislature created in the 1980s the formula ...