I think it is to encourage people to actually live -and stay- there. I lived there for a while when I was young, and was glad to get back to civilization and sunshine =p Honestly, would you want to live somewhere that is sunny half the year and dark the rest of the time? Not to mention mosquitos bieng as big as birds!
To the person who said you have to be born there;
We moved there when I was 12 and lived there for a little over a year, and my whole family, even us kids, got a dividend.
I found a site with info on it, you get the money so long as you are there one year after your applicatin for one. It is not necessarily a thousand...its the amount earned that year divided by all the people getting it.
Okay, I just found the why, too
The Alaska Permanent Fund is a legislatively-controlled appropriation established in 1976. Shortly after the oil from Alaska鈥檚 North Slope began flowing to market through the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, the Permanent Fund was created by an amendment to the constitution of the U.S. state of Alaska to be an investment for the proceeds from the sale of these minerals. The Alaska Permanent Fund was originally envisioned to set aside a share of temporary but phenomenal oil revenues from the unique Prudhoe Bay field to continue benefiting future generations of Alaskans after the original reserves had been depleted. Many citizens also believed that the legislature had spent the $900 million bonus the state had originally received after leasing out the oil fields both too quickly and with too little result. This spurred a desire to set a share of oil revenues out of direct control by politicians who were seen as likely to spend it on wasteful operations and unnecessary capital expenditures.Explain how alaskans get paid a 1000 dollars to live their. I no it has to do with the oil.?
No one really wants to live in frozen tundras thousands of miles from any kind of civilization. However, there are companies that have businesses out there and desperately need highly skilled professionals to do the work. So they pay them perhaps $100 or more an hour to do the work. For that kind of money and you're young enough, many people will do it for one or two years and come back to civilization with a sizable bank account. Maybe most of it has something to do with oil, but there's other companies as well. They're not getting paid 'just to live' there, but to stay there and do a job that no one else wants to do for only $50,000 ($24/hour) a year.
It's called dividend or permanent fund (by most)... and it's because of the money the state makes from letting oil companies lease the land. (So, the state pays the residents.) And it isn't $1,000, so-to-speak... It varies each year. This year it is said to be around $1,600 a piece. Yes, you can get it, even if you weren't born here, but you have to live here from Decemeber of 20XX to Decemeber of the following year... and then you can apply (the following March). Applying for a driver's license would probably be your residential start. I got here in April of 2004 and didn't get my first until last year (2006). So, it has to be December - December.
Yes, it's far from family unless your family lives here. My husband's family lives here so that's why we do, and he grew up here. It's not so bad, though.
i think its cus it allows them to ruin the land. i dno it was in the simpsons lol
because of the oil reserves they are taking out of their national parks- royalties to the Alaskans because the Alaskans own it, you have to be a born Alaskan to get the royalties, so you can't just move their and suspect them to give you money
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