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  2. Alaska Permanent Fund - Wikipedia

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    The Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) is a dividend paid to Alaska residents that have lived within the state for a full calendar year (January 1 – December 31), and intend to remain an Alaska resident indefinitely. [15] This means if residency is taken on January 2, the "calendar year" would not start until next January 1.

  3. Social dividend - Wikipedia

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    The social dividend is the return on the natural resources and capital assets owned by society in a socialist economy. The concept notably appears as a key characteristic of market socialism, where it takes the form of a dividend payment to each citizen derived from the property income generated by publicly owned enterprises, representing the ...

  4. Universal basic income around the world - Wikipedia

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    In 1976, the Alaska Permanent Fund was created by an amendment to the State Constitution. After years of political negotiations about what to do with the returns to the fund, Jay Hammond used the power of his office to craft an agreement to create a genuine universal basic income--the Permanent Fund Dividend. Since implementation of the program ...

  5. Citizen's dividend - Wikipedia

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    Citizen's dividend. Thomas Paine was a major inspiration for this policy. Citizen's dividend is a proposed policy based upon the Georgist principle that the natural world is the common property of all people. It is proposed that all citizens receive regular payments (dividends) from revenue raised by leasing or taxing the monopoly of valuable ...

  6. Public Provident Fund (India) - Wikipedia

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    The Public Provident Fund (PPF) is a voluntary savings-cum-tax-reduction social security instrument in India, [1] introduced by the National Savings Institute of the Ministry of Finance in 1968. The scheme's main objective is to mobilize small savings for social security during uncertain times by offering an investment with reasonable returns ...

  7. List of largest pension schemes in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This list of largest pension funds in the United States involves two main groups: government pension funds for public employees and collectively bargained pension funds, jointly managed between employer and employee representatives after the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947.

  8. Want $1,000 in Dividend Income? Here's How Much You ... - AOL

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    Coca-Cola currently pays a $0.485 quarterly dividend. That works out to an annual dividend of $1.94 a share. To receive $1,000 in dividends, you'll have to purchase 516 shares. How much will those ...

  9. Government Pension Fund of Norway - Wikipedia

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    The Government Pension Fund Global (Norwegian: Statens pensjonsfond Utland, SPU) is a fund into which the surplus wealth produced by Norwegian petroleum income is deposited. Its name changed in January 2006 from the Petroleum Fund of Norway. The fund is commonly referred to as the Oil Fund (Oljefondet). The purpose of the fund is to invest ...