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The oil dividend has pays out ~$2,000 or less per year in one of the more expensive states to live (food, energy, etc). That's hardly worth calling UBI.

> Alaska's poverty rate is [...] 11.1%. In comparison, right before their oil UBI took place their poverty rate was 10%

That implies to me, at least, that their poverty level has gone _up_ not down.



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