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How come Alaska is so wealthy?

• cperciva 15y ago
  Oil.
  • carbocation 15y ago
    For those interested but unfamiliar, google the "permanent fund". (It is not the explanation for Alaska's income distribution; well-paying oil-related jobs are. But it is interesting in its own right and indicative of Alaska's oil wealth.)
• tptacek 15y ago
  I was more surprised by Maryland, just comparing the third quartiles.